Before having a debate about whether God exists, we need to define God. If you say that God is love, then of course, God exists, because love exists. That doesn’t explain who created the universe. If you say that God is the force for good within all of us, or the spirit which moves the wind and the water and causes the trees to reach up and absorb energy from the sun, then the word should be lower case and plural. You are talking about gods and not God.
If you say that God is everything in the universe, then why do you need to say God at all. Universe is a perfectly good word for that. If you say that God is the force which created the universe, that’s all well and good, but it still doesn’t tell me what God is. If the universe was created in a big bang, which doesn’t even seem to be questioned any more and I’m not scientist enough to raise objections, then where did that matter come from? If it’s from a previous universe, then we have a situation where universes are coming into existence, lasting for a few billion years, and then going kerflooey all over again.
Now, billions of years is an awful long time, but the end of existence as we know it has me a little bit worried.
If the matter did somehow spontaneously generate, because maybe it is possible for something to come out of nothing, maybe the awesome weight of infinite miles of nothingness is enough to force some gasses into existence, it is still a pretty awesome thought.
In either case, I would want to know, and I don’t see any particular need to attach the word God to it.
If we are talking about a Christian sort of God, the big man on the golden throne, who consciously created man in his own image, who is keeping a list and seeing who is naughty or nice, who can appear like George Burns to John Denver or the various guest characters on Joan of Arcadia, then I think you are a bit delusional.
Bad things happen to good people, good things happen to bad people. In fact, the world we live in is just about as random as a world could possibly be. I don’t really even believe in Karma, but I do try to be as decent a person as possible most of the time. You never know.
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