It's a trick question right? Because there are many gods. Each with his/her/it's own niche to exist in. God as I understand her doesn't give a damn about 'obedience' and doesn't take credit for creating anything. God simply is. Kinda like gravity only she's a fairly stacked strawberry-blond with a landing strip.
The concept of God generally attributed to the Christian world is a different matter. The god of the bible, but actually all uni-gods with buildings and an employment hierarchy. First the idea of "one god instead of many" had to take root, then someone figured out how to capitalize on that idea. Once you capitalize you naturally want to monopolize, so you convince people to do things they normally wouldn't for the good of the company. Church. I meant "for the good of the church and the God-story the church sold you".
Jesus (aka 'the original hippie') may have believed his story. Many chronic hallucinators do. His followers probably believed them too. He, of course, was not the first uni-God believer. He borrowed the entire idea from the religion he was born into and added a new twist: I'm they guy they told was was awesome ... and my Mom wasn't sleeping with the mailman. Eventually though we're all humans and we all want "stuff". More of it than yesterday no matter what our needs amount to, or the needs of our fellow man. We might offer a bit of what we have and feel good about it, but we do that only when it doesn't risk our collection of stuff. Organized religion is like that only they don't pay property taxes. And probably not income taxes either. And they dress funny.
Notice I am a man wearing a very long dress? See my stupid hat? Dig on my bling? God told me to wear this dress and hat and to accessorize with bling in order to tell you if you don't give me money then you will burn in hell (see chapter 5) forever and ever. ... Hey is that your young boy over there? He's nice 
