The Paradox Of God: Origin

Death, Birth, Immortality And The Origin Of God

“Always has been” is sort of the opposite of “always will be” — also known as immortality

For the purpose of simplicity or just the fun of it, let’s call “always has been” “imoriginity”

Immortality: “in” + “mortalis” (latin for ‘not’ and ‘mortality’ respectively)

Imoriginity : “in” + “originis” (latin for ‘not’ and ‘origin’ respectively)

When confronted with the idea of something that has no origin i.e. has always been , we struggle with the idea because we have no premise to accept it or rationalize it. In fact we do not even have a word for it.

However, there is another concept that we accept despite not fully understanding it: “always will be” (immortality).

Why can we accept immortality but not imoriginity?

Immortality has a premise for rationalizing it and this premise does not contradict any fundamental aspect of our reality.

Death and immortality

What is death?

We understand death as the cessation of being — an end. The point at which a body’s ability to function has been lost.

We also have rational explanations for death: an accident, sickness, or just aging.

This explanation of death gives us a basis on which to reason about or embrace immortality.

If death is caused by injury or illness or aging, then immortality is the idea that — there is way in which these events or circumstances which lead to death can be stopped or controlled.

This idea of immortality is acceptable since it does not violate any fundamental component of our world, even though we do not comprehend how it may happen.

This is not the case with birth and imoriginity, because imoriginity cannot be rationalized or accepted on the premise of birth.

Birth and imoriginity

Our understanding of death forms a basis upon which immortality can be accepted. This is because we simply view immortality as the “absence of death”. This perspective does not undermine the principles of our world, even though we don’t know how it can happen.

Imoriginity, on the other hand, cannot be simply rationalized as the “absence of birth” because this contradicts a fundamental aspect of our reality, such that we have no basis to reason or accept it.

Everything in our reality is formed from something else. Something is always born out of something else; otherwise, where would it have originated? As a result, the notion that something exists but did not originate from something else — imoriginity — is incompatible with our worldview.

Hence, birth cannot be a basis to accept imoriginity just like death is for immortality.

Does this mean that imoriginity is not possible or that the creator is not imorigin?

A Case For Imoriginity

It is not unusual for things to exist that contradict our reality.

For decades, despite its contradiction with reality, the bizarre and strange world of quantum mechanics has influenced our technology and way of life.

Scientists cannot explain most of what they observe like quantum entanglement and quantum superposition — yet quantum physics is real.

Quantum entanglement is a puzzling phenomena that explains how two subatomic particles can remain intimately connected and information can travel between them instantaneously even if they’re trillions of kilometers — light years — apart, contradicting the already established principle that nothing travels faster than light.

Quantum Superposition is yet another strange phenomenon where, basically, a subatomic particle exists in two places at the same time.

The quantum world simply demonstrates that even if something is contradictory, it can nonetheless be true.

Quantum mechanics contradicts our everyday experience while yet being a parallel reality. Its presence is not negated by the fact that we cannot reconcile it with our reality.

Despite this contradiction research into this strange world has resulted in inventions such as fluorescent lights, lasers, computer and phone technology, and so on.

The quantum world is the world that’s smaller than an atom. Reality is different here and beyond. But how far is beyond? How small does “small” get? How strange does “small” get as it gets smaller.

If we cannot grasp the immediate microscopic world of quantum mechanics — if it is so weird some scientists choose to ignore aspects of it — what makes us think we can even begin to imagine how much weirder it gets beyond the quantum level.

A Case For An Imorigin Creator

The notion of a creator is so laden with obscurity that it’s easier to dismiss it entirely. But are you also going to deny your own existence?

The idea of a creator that wasn’t created is bizarre and yet you can’t throw it away because your very existence CANNOT BE — if there is no ORIGIN.

You can’t deny that you are alive and exist and yet you can’t make sense of your origin.

Your very existence is in itself inexplicable

Our discovery of the quantum world proves that there is more to reality than what we can perceive — and that these other aspects of reality don’t align with our understanding of the world.

This brings us to the conclusion and humbling reality THAT WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. In fact, we are not even close. We just have to accept that there is more to life and existence than we can fathom. Your very existence is in itself inexplicable. Where were you before you were born and what happens when you die? In fact why do you even have to die?

So, it is not outrageous if we conclude that the “origin of life” exists beyond the confines of our reality and thus not within our ability to fully rationalize.

Imoriginity is then the unsatisfying conclusion of the origin of the creator. Perhaps this proves that the creator is of a different kind of reality than us. That we exist in some lower or different form of reality and the way things work here is not a reflection of reality in it’s entirety.

I would love to end on this final note — that this conclusion, whose premise is based entirely on the assertion that the origin of life cannot be an infinite loop of creators, could also not be entirely true or altogether wrong.

However logically sound it may appear, we must make room for doubt and allow for the idea that the premise could be wrong — though I do not see how (but isn’t that the point) — or the premise could be right but the conclusion itself is wrong.

We do not know it all. We can only draw the best conclusions that our limited worldview and intelligence permit us to draw. We are essentially looking dimly through a dark room, grasping for answers.

Remember:

Truth is not afraid of scrutiny — because upon scrutiny you will find the evidence that makes truth “true” — and then come to a greater realization of that truth.

— Chukwudifu Ugochukwu