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How did the concept of God come about; that is, the idea that some indefinable being or spirit created this world and the humans in it, and the whole Universe itself and all of creation?
One can trace the development of the god idea, its evolution perhaps, but the word God and the concept of divinity and deities aren’t to be found in early human texts, not on cuneiform tablets, not in hieroglyphic renderings, or any extra-Biblical texts, and even the Biblical texts come late to the table, original insights changed to accommodate situational circumstances of the Israelite nation and peoples.
What happened is that persons of high social, military, or economic rank were referred to as lords and/or nobles, but the idea of deities or divine beings came into being by way of translators or evaluators of texts, the words divine and divinity or deity and deities and especially god or gods are not to found in the early texts, but attributed to words that described exalted or held-in-esteem persons.
Nowhere in the texts themselves are the word God (or gods) or Divine or deity. They just aren’t there.
An etymological search for the first use of the word god keeps coming back to this:
“The word 'God' came from the Germanic Saxon languages. The earliest written form of the Germanic word God comes from the 6th century Christian manuscript - Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * gudan.” [Various sources from Google and academic responses to the query]
Those persons or beings that later researchers/translators et al. refer to as God or gods were called by their “proper name”: El or Elohim or Baal or Horus or Marduk or Zeus et cetera not God per se.
This is the problem for those who see the manifest of exalted persons as God, a divine, other-worldly entity. Yahweh ends up being God almighty because he pretended to be something he was not: the creator of all things, even existence itself.
This is the “genius” of that being. He created himself as something special, something beyond the norm, and had so many odd attributes that those whom he confronted accepted the ruse.