u plan-etary magic: and god is the centre of the universe?

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6th December 2006

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

and god is the centre of the universe?

A pertinent question faces us all. IS there a God, are there many gods, or are there none at all? That divine being, having attibrutes unseen in mankind - for instaance, infinitude, immutability, eternity, goodness, knowledge, omniscience and omnipotence. A mystery? Perhaps. We can only have limited knowledge of God, due to the nature of our existence and the limited capacities of our minds. Yet, together, we have formulated different conceptions of philosophies of God. In the Age of Enlightenment, mamy people came to doubt the existence of this God. In response, Blaise Pascal argued that reason requires religious belief. Without reason, our existence only proves to be a meaningless matter. When the USE released the Hubble telescope that captured evidence of how stars from different galaxies changed colours, it proved the universe was expanding. If the universe is expanding, it would thus mean it is definite. And using the law of casuality. Everything that is definite requires a cause for it to exist. So how could a definite object exist with no definite cause? Which it does. The answer had to be a cause that was infinte. It had to be self-existent, immaterial, timeless and non-spatial. What fitted these attributes? Perhaps this answer is clearer now. Yet to many religious believers, God is not a philosophical God, not one that needs to be defined, rather one that is personal, felt by each individual. And thus reason for our consciousness. We need to feel and experience him. This is the basis of God, a God of faith, and now thise would give ample reason for our existence. There is no explainable reason how and idea of God could arrive in our minds, from nothing. Although the conceptions of God has varied considerably, depending on historical period, culture, and sects, a belief in Holy Divine Being in some sense has been predominant in almost all societies. This belief has been challenged, yet no one can wholly deny Him. Sad to say, the proportion of unbelievers has risen, most likely due to the advancements in science, which has uncovered and help mankind understand more and more mysteries of the world; added to that, the emphasis of living a life, rather than living itself. Perhaps the ony major evidence believers have in God would be textual, such as the bible and the Koran. This has been backed up with archaeological evidences. Especially the bible, and the existence of these texts are undeniable. With the discovery of the Dead sea scrolls, the bible has found much more evidence to back its claim as the one truth. However, it is amazing to see the many similarities between the different books of the many different religions. The bible, which talks about JErusalem and other places, has definiteve backings in the form of city ruins still standing today. Definitive evidence? The medieval scholastic theologian St Anselm argued that the very idea of a being that whom no more perfect can be conceived entails his existence, for existence is in itself, an aspect of perfection. Five other proofs of existence he proposed are as follows. Firstly, that the fact of change requires an agent of change. Secondly, that the chain of causation needs to be grounded in a first cause that is first uncaused. Thirdly, the contingent facts of the world (facts that might not have been as they are) presupposee a necessary being. Fourthly, one can observe of gradation of things as higher and lower, and this points to a perfect reality and the top of the hierarchy. And lastly, the order and design of nature demand as their source, a being possessing the highest wisdom. Moral life does need God's existence for it to make sense at all! Many will not believe. The notion of the modern world of "seeing is believing" perhaps blinds them from this fact, but the probability of his existence is undoubted. A probablity of all the reasons, compounded with the archaeological and literal evidence and religious experiences. Yet, this belief is as the bible so states it. It is an act of faith.

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