'I believe that God exists.' 'I think that
God resides everywhere, 'I believe that there is a Supreme Mind or a Principle
indifferent to human exploits.' Some people do not believe in a personal God
but allow that there is something higher out there.No matter whether God exists
or not the fact is that the idea of God exists. For a cynic, the sheer
existence of this idea is a greater miracle than the marvel of possible God's
existence. For it is amazing that "such a vicious and savage creature as
man" could have recognized the necessity of such a lofty idea. It does a
great credit to man (who otherwise does not deserve much admiration. The most
vicious animal has developed the idea of the most sublime being. God does not
want to take away this credit from man by considering the possibility that God has implanted the idea of Himself in
man. If God has created the world, He
also created the human mind with the conception of only three dimensions of
space. This means that for human mind two parallel lines can never meet since
that intuition is essential for our intellect - any other reasoning is not
valid on this planet. Note: Of course, if we put two parallel lines on a sphere
they will meet, but this could be explained by means of the same Euclidean
geometry. What we cannot conceive and accept is that a non-Euclidian geometry
holds for the world that we see. It can only apply to non-intuitive and
non-worldly entities beyond our comprehension and rational abilities.With our
limited abilities we cannot decide the question of God's existence. But our
human powers suffice to reflectively determine who we are, what do we believe
and what can we know. The man wants to explicate his own nature: what does he
believe and what does he hope for. This is possible to figure out independent
from the issue whether God exists and is relevant for the issue of evil. As a
man I can reason only in the following way: If God exists and if
He did create the world, then He created it according to the men. This world
includes both the assumption of three dimensions and the axiom about parallel
lines that is constitutive for the visible world. How does man know that God
must have created the world according to the axioms of world? Because his mind
operates in that manner and it has been presumably created by God. Note: This is a rationalist presumption against those who
place God above commonsense logic and against those who propound a world as the
geometry of the universe. It appears that the world we see is set up in
accordance with the world and this constitution inevitably defines the
framework for any discussion and understanding of the world. "I could
never understand how one can love one's neighbor." Impossible Love: Concrete individuals close to us are physically
repugnant. One sees the ugliness of human race vividly present in those who are
around us. People we know do things that make love for them
impossible. By their acts they demonstrate that humans do not deserve to be
loved. it is in our darkest hour that we must have faith.
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