Abstract

The question, “Who created the concept of God?” is a multiply complex question-it presupposes answers to at least two prior questions. One is “Is there one and only one concept of God?” Another (which presupposes that there is only one such concept) is “Is this concept of God created?” I will argue that there is more than one concept of God and that at least one of these concepts may be uncreated. If I am right, then the question “Who created the concept of God?” is based on a clearly false presupposition (that there is one and only one concept of God) and a presupposition that is not clearly true (that the concept of God was created). It follows that this question does not have a straightforward answer. Nonetheless, there is much to learn-about concepts of God and their origins-by analyzing it.