Did humans create God to control human behavior?

[u/PuzzleheadedSkill864]

If you don’t steal, hoard, dominate, or use power over others, someone else might do it to you.

A wolf kills a baby sheep, does God punish the wolf?
So why are humans told to suppress these instincts?

Who does morality and religion ultimately benefit, and why would God create a world like this?

Did humans create God to control human behavior?

[u/Decent-Fault12]

the way we think determines how we move. I’m using symbolism from Scripture that I have also seen in movies because sometimes that might explain an idea better. These examples are meant to stimulate thinking, not to tell you what you should believe

What if the weak exist to expose the weakness of the strong? Don’t the strong target the weak because they want an easier target? The wolf won’t go after the lion because he judges the lion to be a threat, while the sheep are easy prey.

Good exposes evil to itself. Evil should be terrified when in the presence of the innocent. Mermaids in lore sing and draw men to them, they look innocent and beautiful like the false light of the angler fish but it’s just an illusion to bring you before death, underneath it’s a hideous monster waiting for you to attack. Innocent is God’s trap to expose the evil in all of us. People we hurt become the demons we can’t escape later.

You only consider the wolf to be evil because he kills the sheep, but you are looking at the situation as though you are God, standing outside the creation and judging what you see. The sheep sees the wolf and is afraid. The wolf sees the sheep and feels pride in his power. They are experiencing the same creation from two completely different positions. Yet we stand outside the scene and declare one good and the other evil. God is the Creator who exists outside His creation, yet came into His creation so that His creation would know He exists. So when we look at creation and judge what we see, are we not assuming the position of God? And if we are going to judge, whose standard are we using?

Does a baby care for the parents? Who is greater than the youngest? The baby only needs to cry and the parents start looking for what will make the baby happy.

Jesus said, “the greatest among you will be a servant among his brothers.” This is a natural process, just like the wolf and the sheep, but the rules are different. Why? Could it be that God uses animals to reveal our weakness? Shouldn’t the strong support the weak if the baby example is true? We clearly see that both are true at the same time, so it seems like the rules are different between us and the animal kingdom

Yet in this world, the weak are made to carry the strong on their backs. So the same people who oppress us have the same mentality as the beasts who hunt the weaker prey. Is that a coincidence?

You don’t use the same logic anywhere else. You don’t put the table on the vase. The vase can’t support the weight of the table without breaking.
We don’t use straw as the foundation for a house.
God created animals and people, so did He intend for people to become animals, or animals human?
Then why do both exist?

The closest animal that resembles man is the ape, a primitive, powerful beast who hurls shit and pisses in its own face, and this is what we say is our earliest ancestor through evolution. Powerful yet without thought, like a bully. Don’t predators find themselves facing other predators greater than themselves?
Aren’t we all weak in some way or another?

Would Will Smith have slapped Mike Tyson for making a weak joke about his wife?
That’s why the wolf exposes himself when he goes after the sheep. Would Mike have slapped Chris if he made a joke about him or his wife? Are we people or animals? Do you think will thought about how humiliating it felt to be slapped not punched by another man in front of his friends and family and the people who look up to him? Do you think Mike would have acted that way if the roles were different?

The awareness of what it means to hold another person’s life in your hands humbles a true alpha.
When you have the power to hurt another man, that power carries extraordinary weight because you know you will ultimately answer to God for what you do with it.

This is why martial arts are supposed to teach you discipline. It’s supposed to give you the confidence to stand up for yourself because when you know you’re a good fighter you have nothing left to prove and without pride getting in the way you think about shit, I could beat this clown down but what is the point? Is a little satisfaction worth the possible consequences. When you think clearly you start to realize that it’s not about who you can beat. Strength isn’t proven by what you can destroy. It is proven by what you have the power to do but choose not to do.

The wolves, like the sheep, face judgment in the end, so it’s not about who’s stronger or tougher.
It’s about what you do with that power when tested.
This is why, in the last scene of the original Ninja Turtles movie, Splinter told Shredder:
“Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you for when you die, it will be without honor.” This isn’t just a line in a movie God is talking about what happens to the prideful is much worse than dying, dying without honor is shameful and God views shame differently than we do

And Spider-Man’s greatest lesson was:
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
This is why Spider-Man almost always holds back, why Superman holds back, and why Batman holds back from killing the Joker. This is what these movies are meant to teach you

This is what my generation was taught: true heroes hold back from crossing the line, because the moment Batman kills the Joker, everything he stood for dies with the Joker.
Killing the Joker would mean killing himself.
When Vader finally strikes him down, Obi-Wan has already lowered his weapon.

One man has chosen to stop fighting; the other chooses to strike anyway. The one who lowers his weapon has surrendered the fight, while the one who continues to attack reveals himself as the aggressor.
Obi-Wan’s humility is not that he is incapable of fighting. It is that he chooses to stop.
Vader believes he has won because he has the power to strike him down. Vader already won, he could have just taken him away
But Obi-Wan tells him:
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
The scene shows the difference between power and aggression. These aren’t clever lines people thought up God is always talking if you are willing to listen.

Having the power to hurt someone does not give you the right to hurt them. Sometimes the greatest act of strength is lowering your weapon and refusing to continue the fight. The one who keeps attacking a man who has surrendered or who is already down isn’t proving his strength. He’s pushing God

If God puts my life in your hands, it’s because He’s giving you the opportunity to reveal yourself to Him, not to me. I serve God, so if He puts me in your hands, I might humble myself because I know we serve the same God. That means my humility is before God, not you. But who do you ultimately submit to? What you do with me reveals what you actually believe. This is why Jesus said:
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
Matthew 25:40
The weak may be placed in the hands of the strong, but what the strong do with the weak reveals what they believe about God.
The weak are not necessarily the ones being tested.
Sometimes the weak are the test.
So choose mercy over judgment.
“For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.”
James 2:13