Creating God
One Story Told a Thousand Ways
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There is one question humanity has asked since the beginning of time:
Where did we come from — and why are we here?
Across continents, cultures, religions, and centuries, people have searched for meaning in the same ways: through story, symbol, sky, spirit, and self. They have given different names to the Divine. They have written different scriptures. They have drawn different maps of the cosmos. And yet, when you step back far enough, the stories begin to look… familiar.
This series exists to explore that pattern.
Creating God is not about tearing down religion.
It is not about declaring one belief “right” and another “wrong.”
And it is not about telling anyone what they should believe.
It is about laying the stories side by side — ancient and modern, sacred and scientific — and asking an honest question:
Why do so many of them say the same things?
Floods that cleanse the world.
A spark of light that begins creation.
Messengers between heaven and earth.
Moral laws written into the human heart.
A soul that survives death.
A struggle between darkness and light — not just in the world, but within us.
These themes appear everywhere: in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Ancient Egypt, Sumer, Greece, Indigenous traditions, mystical philosophy, and even modern science. Sometimes they wear different names. Sometimes they are told through myth, poetry, or metaphor. But the core ideas repeat with remarkable consistency.
This series is an attempt to gather those shared threads in one place.
Each month, we will explore a foundational theme — not through argument, but through comparison and reflection. We will focus on overlap rather than conflict, on what cultures agree on more than where they differ. Differences will be acknowledged only when they help illuminate the bigger picture.
At its heart, Creating God is also about the human experience.
No matter what you call the Divine — God, Source, Creator, Universe, Spirit, or something else entirely — belief shapes the way we think, the way we heal, and the way we live. Our inner world matters. Our thoughts matter. Our sense of meaning matters.
Across traditions, one truth appears again and again:
What we hold within us shapes what we experience around us.
This series will explore that idea carefully and respectfully — through religion, spirituality, philosophy, psychology, and lived human experience — without preaching, without pressure, and without asking anyone to abandon their path.
You are invited to read, reflect, and decide for yourself.
Some readers will come out of curiosity.
Some will come searching for something they can’t quite name.
Some may come to challenge what’s written here.
All are welcome.
This is not a series about answers handed down from authority.
It is a series about questions that humanity keeps asking — and the patterns
that emerge when we finally listen across cultures instead of talking over them.
The first chapter of this journey begins January 7, 2026, and continues once a month thereafter.
If something here stirs your curiosity,
save this page and return when you’re ready.
Sometimes the truth is too big for one book.
And sometimes, finding meaning means gathering the pieces yourself.