God
Maybe God exists. Maybe God doesn’t. But if God exists, God does not exist because one human being believes He does. God does not exist because you believe. You believe because God exists.
If God does not exist, it is remarkable that God has existed among all groups of people everywhere in the world since the beginning of time. Let’s say you could not see food. But if you saw everybody putting something in their mouth and munching on it several times a day, you’d say, maybe there is something to it. There is a reason why everyone is going through the motions.
It is possible God does not exist, but the concept of God is a basic human need, like air, water, food, sleep. But nobody who believes in God presents God as a concept. To those who believe in God, God is as concrete as the universe itself, as concrete as humanity itself, maybe more so.
To those who believe in God, those who do not believe in God are like people without high school diplomas. God exists, but they don’t get it. Some day they will. It is possible some who do not believe God exists think people who believe in God are a little behind in time. If they were to know more math and science, they might stop believing. It does not matter that Einstein claimed his work was him trying to understand the mind of God.
I think God is like I am. The very definition of God is based on the premise that it exists. I might or might not exist, but God does. The universe might or might not exist, but God does. God exists more than you and I do.
To even have the conversation as to whether God exists is like living in America and trying to figure out if America exists.
But if God exists, what is it? Who is he? When people say God, do they all mean the same thing? Across all religions and belief systems? Or is it like just like every country has its own president, every religion has its own separate God? Same title, but different entities. That suggestion runs counter to the very idea of God. In every religion God gets called the Creator. But every religion is referring to the same universe. Which means every religion is talking in terms of but one Creator, one God.
I believe there is but one God. But in trying to understand that one God, that super intelligence, human religions have come up with spiritual concepts that can seem like are suggesting something other than one God. There is the Hindu trinity, and there is the Christian trinity, but both do talk in terms of one God. In the Hindu belief system, that one God has a name, Parameshwar, but no form. In the Christian belief system, he has a form.
God created the universe. Look at the complex physics we have come up with to try to understand that universe. Why are religions not allowed to come up with spiritual concepts to help us understand and reach out to that God? Understanding the creation is allowed concepts, but why not understanding the Creator? Of course it is allowed.
I think we are blind men trying to figure out the elephant. We are trying our best, but we are not managing to fully describe. But if there is but one elephant, it should be possible to come up with a composite picture if we were to compare notes. That is a case for one religion.
One God, one humanity, one religion.
But God is not physical. God is not something in the universe. God is not a planet, not a black hole, not a star. God’s existence is spiritual. Each human being has a soul, which is not physical. You pray to God because that soul needs to get to Heaven and Everlasting Life.
Your soul is not of this world. God is not of this world. Heaven is not of this world. Your soul, God and Heaven are soulular realities, like the mitochondria is a cellular reality.
False Prophets, False Priests, False Words
