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Nydia asked:

Did God create man or did man create God?

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It is, I think, really important to make the distinction between the conceptof God, and God. (Just as
we should carefully distinguish between the concept of a tiger and tigers.) Concepts are in the mind,
but what they are concepts of are not in the mind. All concepts are created by human beings. But
what they are concepts of are not created by human beings. Think of the tiger example. So, the
concept of God was, like all other concepts, created by human beings. But I don't think it is possible
for God himself (if God exists) to have been created by human beings.

Kenneth Stern