No one can claim
to be able to prove God does not exist or that God does exist. We can't
claim to have the truth. Religious beliefs can get very personal, and
are part of a person's life jouney. We are all seekers for the truth.
If there is a God, I would like to know where he is when we need him so
much. How can God exist when the problem of evil is a such a big one?
Sure, some atheists here are convinced there is no God, but some people
of faith are convinced there is a God. This is a matter of faith, we
can't prove we are right to each other, what makes sense to someone
will only make sense in their own mind. We are not made to know, that
is why they call it faith. Fatih has been called a belief without
evidence, but perhaps, really, it is a belief that falls under some
persuasion, perhaps from a higher power if you like to believe that, or
perhaps from our own intuition, and general perception of the
explanations of the evidence for and against a God.
Probably for my
whole life I'll search and wonder why he doesn't give us any empirical
evidence of his existance. Why can't we find this God, where has he
been for so long?
Could we be in
the dream of a sleeping God? Is everything totally imagined by this
God, and in fact the universe came into existance five minutes ago?
Perhaps we are just waking up realizing, wow, something amazing really
happened here. We are alive against all odds, if our parents would have
decided to not marry or to not have children, we would be lost in
oblivion. Yet how can we be certain these are how things really are?
How do we know, some powerful God has decieved us so good as to present
everything we know, to our memories, completely fabricated by this God,
just to see what will happen.
These are all
possibilities, we can't rule them out altogether, the fact is we may be
dreaming right now. However, if you look at the evidence it seems we
are the product of brute facts. From the production of the periodic
table in huge stars, to biological evolution nature seems to be
powerful enough to force us into existance.
There is a field
of study in philosophy called metaphysics, where philosophers argue how
are things really, they get almost no where, but I cannot deny the hard
reality of a metaphysical point of view, that is natuarlistic or
materialistic. It seems that we are not in the dream of a sleeping God,
for which there seems to be no evidence. The more we look, the clearer
the picture of a natural universe becomes. It really looks like
everything works because it is just like that. Perhaps a God made the
universe out of a big bang, and just stepped back and watched his
creation take off, it is possible, but he most certainly is not a
sustainer. There is no evidence of little angels flying around making
the laws of nature work. They just seem to work on their own.
We can believe
what we want with regard to there being a God or there not being a God,
but it shouldn't be done out of fear or out of a hope for fire
insurance, it should be done ideally out of one's own spiritual
journey. We have our personal experiences that we cannot deny, as if
God has a plan for us in our lives, perhaps the plan for atheists is to
be skeptical, and to not believe this, and willfully discard any hope
to a God, dogmactically shrinking the probability of all possible Gods
to zero. You have to admit it is strange that the believer claims to be
able to experience God while the unbeliever goes lacking in such
experiences.
If there is a God he is hiding really good, almost undetectable.
So there is our
quest to search till we just get bored with it really, and at the end
of the day believe what we want, which we all are going to do anyway.
So is there a God or is there not a God does not matter, what matters
is allowing religion to evolve to where it is more individualistic, and
with more liberal theologies, in religion's quest to find a God for
people.
Sincerely,
The seeker Doubting Thomas
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