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| Does God exist ? (Lets reason about the Almighty) |
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Author - Saju Asokan |
| Last Updated: Aug 02 2008 |
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Why did god create the universe? |
If you ask a very creative person to sit in a room idle for a month and observe him, you will know the answer to this question. He will do something or the other, so that he gets the satisfaction of creation. If you see man as a subset of God’s image, you can find that God has the same nature in him in a much amplified manner. But God’s creation of man was not only based on his nature of creation, but also because He likes to love and being loved. That is the reason why God created man in his own image.
Why do you like being loved by your pet? Do you get the same joy if a toy dog wags its tail at you? God’s creation of man in his own image was to give and receive love, not mechanically but naturally. |
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If God does exist, why do men suffer? |
God likes free-will. He is always a loving god who wishes to provide for His creations. He gives rain and sunlight for both the righteous and the wicked. (Grain goes to the store house whereas weed gets burned) The only requirement for the love and care to flow from source to the destination is the presence of a channel. Here the channel is nothing but man’s willingness to accept His love.
I heard the story of a person who went to a barber shop. While the barber was cutting his hair, the barber kept on talking about human sufferings in this world, and asserted that god doesn’t exist because the needy are left helpless. The person simply kept silent until his hair had been cut properly, and went out of the shop. After a while, he entered back into the barber shop and declared: ‘Barbers doesn’t exist’. The barber got amazed by this and said: ‘Who told? I myself am a barber and I cut your hair just a few minutes back’. The person replied. ‘When I went out of your shop, I saw a beggar with his hair and beard uncut for years and he looks awful. If barbers exist in this world, why should the beggar look so horrible? So barbers don’t exist.’
IIt is not because God doesn’t exist that men suffer, but because men seldom care to seek God’s help. Even in the midst of the greatest difficulties, men opt to solve his problems with his abilities and logic. All that God wants is an invitation to our lives. He is definitely not a thief who breaks into the home and takes over the authority of our lives. |
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How can god be omniscient and omnipresent? |
If it takes a couple of hours for a flight to go from one country to another, where as for a light beam, it turns out to be a fraction of a second, why can’t it be absolute zero in the case of god? If we can see such a vast difference in speeds between two entities perceivable through our senses, how can we say that an entity requiring zero time, called God cannot exist? Omni presence can be attained when time required for travelling from one point to another reaches an absolute zero.
Omniscience can be attained when God has a means for reading your mind, your thoughts and even the future. If you have ever debugged a computer program, you will know that, though a program communicates with a user or another computer using a specific protocol (may be plain text messages), a debugger can read the current state of the program and all its memory values at any point of time at his discretion. If that is the case with a simple program and a debugger, how easy can it be for an almighty God to read your thoughts and mind?
The matter of future and past are linked rigidly with time. We have a sense of time only because; we see the days passing by and our body age (that is the way it has been designed). If you lock yourself up in a dark room for a couple of years, you’ll hardly be able to judge the passing by of time. We are concerned with a matter of time, due to the ultimate fact that our mortal bodies depends greatly on time. To god, time is infinity. In God’s terms, I doubt that a matter of future or past really exists. |
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How shall we conclude? |
If you ask me how I would like to conclude, I would immediately say “God exists”. But it may not feel convincing to you at all. I had been expressing my views and what I learned through my own experience. (Yes I have been lucky enough to meet god’s power personally in my life. If you are interested in reading more about that incident, click here). I hope this article had been able to throw atleast a little bit of light into your questions, or provoke your thoughts a bit.
I know that the questions I have answered are not exhaustive at all. Kindly post your questions to me through the feedback form and I’ll include them along with the answers, in the article’s future updations. If any portion of the article had been unclear, kindly let me know. Those who still argue that god doesn’t exist, kindly go through the link I have given above - my own testimony that god exists. I can tell you that a thousand debates may not help you find answers to your suffocating questions, but a single experience can.
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