Tuesday, 20 May 2008

• Does God exist?

  On a Friday at college, I and my whole class must have had a huge discussion about religion & God and the big bang theory.  After this discussion I started thinking to myself does god really exist? I don’t know why but every time I have these discussions with people I start to question my faith. So let’s discuss about the existence of God.
  
  Okay so does God exist, well it’s a difficult question. Why I say it’s difficult is because we have science and science has explained to us how the universe and the earth came into being through the big bang. Science has explained to us how humans came into being through evolution. Science is factual.

  But on the other hand I could say God exist because if we look around us, everything in this world has a cause and anything caused must be caused by something else (something greater). Therefore the universe as an example must have been cause and only God could be the cause of the universe. For that reason God must exist.   
  

  I could also say the universe seems to be designed because the way the universe works according to scientific laws like gravity and how the big bang worked with the laws of science to produce a universe of order. So this can lead people to believe God exist because anything designed, will always have a designer. So the universe was designed and the only possible designer is God, so God must exist.       
  

  Some simple but interesting answers to our question “does God exist?”

  Now let’s come up with deeper answers.

  The percentage of the world population who belong to a religion is around 80 per cent. Most religions share some traits such as belief in God, life after death, Praying to God & worshiping God. These religions are trying to contact a being greater than humans, known as God. So it would be difficult to believe about 80% of the world population is wrong about God. But at the same time it doesn’t mean about 80% of the world population is correct, remember when everyone believed the world was flat. More than half of the world population believed the world was flat.

   
  On the other hand they are people who don’t believe in God existence because of the Evil and suffering in the world, which leads people to become agnostics or atheists.
  Some evil such as theft & wars are moral evil, actions done by humans. But people who die or suffer from earthquakes like the estimated 12,000 people who are trapped or died in countless numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in china is known as natural evil, the acts of God.

  So if God was benevolent (all good/loving) he would get rid of such evil or prevent them and If God was omnipotent (all powerful) he could stop such evil with no problem but since natural evil still exist, more and more people will start to believe God does not exist.

   Personally I certainly do not believe that God would make humans only to make natural evil and kill them. No, I believe natural evil as a test. To test the people’s faith in God, like in China. Some people would have lost their children and their family members and all their properties to the earthquake but still believe in God while others survivors would doubt God’s existences and blame him for their misfortunes.
  Those who continue to believe in god despite their misfortunes would be rewarded by God.     

  
  

  Anyway let’s continue our discussion about “does God exist?”

  Let’s talk about prayers, people pray and some may feel the presence of God as they pray. But what happens if you do not feel the presences of God when you pray, does it mean God doesn’t exist? Now what is the presence of God, how do we know if we can feel it.

  Well how do we know it isn’t our hormones playing up? It’s even worst when you can’t feel the presence of God and your Prayers are unanswered. You must know that a Prayer is a way of contacting God. If there is no contact, it might mean there is no one there.
  
   Religious experience has gain many people to believe in the existence of God because Religious experience is how people come into direct contact with God. Experiencing a miracle, any event that seems to break a law of science and the only explanation for which seems to be God. For example I drank cement and somehow survived. lol not funny but you get the miracle example. Even having your prayers answered. For example someone prays for God to help them out of a problem and the problem disappears.
  It is because of a Religious experience I became closer to God and accept Jesus as my savior.

  I have to go now, so let’s continue this discussion later.

  Part 2 of “does God exist?” Coming Sooooon
  

  Peace

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