Before you read this, please be warned that try to hold to your faith
very tight. And one must have an open mind in order to understand its
context.
Ever wonder why there are so many gods in this world? First gods are
those of our ancestral time… Rah, sun god of the Egyptians. Plants,
trees, animals had been Gods of the pagans.
Zeus, Demeter, Hades, etc.. those Gods of the greeks which are now considered only as a part of the greek mythology.
Why did they become a myth? I dont have an answer to that either. But
what I’m trying to point is that from then until now. Through the times
of the Olympian Gods to the Hindu Gods and the Gods of almost every
religion we will find in this world, one thing is sure. The Gods did not create the Humans. It is the Humans that created the Gods.
Wonder why the Gods are so powerful and transcendental? It is because
that we humans projects someone or something that would be of great
power and divinity for us to be moral and be more responsible to our
actions. As Ludwig Fauerbach would say, "God is nothing but a projection of the human mind".
We humans, since timely memorial, have been fond of thinking that there
are gods and goddesses (for christians, there is only one GOD). That
Gods would punish us if we did something wrong. That God would send us
to hell to pay for our mortal sins. That God would give us
everlasting life and peace if we follow his words. But does someone
right now really know that there is a heaven or hell? No one living
today could tell us and say to us that there really is a heaven or
hell. Why? Those who went there already are dead.
I believe in God, but yet I wrote this stuff. For the atheists and the
antagonists and even those who have doubts really does have a point.
For the past years of my life, I have always know that there is a God.
But where is he? How could I find him? Some people would say that
"listen to the word and God would be there", "Believe unto him and he
shall be with you" and blah… blah… blah… I watch the TV shows
that talk about this for years even they are of different religion and
beliefs. I have read books, specifically the Bible (a hundred times, a
verse a day and the whole book if I’ve got nothing to do) and even
those of the inspirational books on how god touches their lives. But
still, no answer of God’s true existence.
I even have my own argument to prove that god exist:
"Everything must have a beginning, before their beginning there must be
nothing. If there was nothing in the beginning and nothing produces
nothing therefore there should be nothing this very day. But today
there is something not nothing (something produces something). There
could not have been nothing in the beginning and that something in the
beginning is non other than GOD which is of a necessity (meaning,
unconditioned)."
But it was nulled and void by things and evidences that disproves God. I even found a site that tries to prove God.
And yet, still not strong enough. There really is no necessary
connection of things to God and even to the proof of his existence.
As Nietszche would say "Christianity was from the beginning,
essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life,
merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another"
or "better" life." which is from The Birth of Tragedy, p.23, Walter Kaufmann transl. Trully, a projection of the mind.
God has been dead all this time. For he is so remote, and described to
be so perfect and divine which could only point to us and say that we
had killed God for only a dead God can trully fit perfection and
divinity. No one could ever reach him. Not even through prayers for
prayers are only self-reflection that has a subject, God.
Probably, years, decades or centuries from now, these religions and
beliefs we had today would turn out to be Myths just as what happened
to other religions and also, be a part of Humanities Literature. Or the
worst case, these beliefs would still perpetuate for another millenia.
: This sites would be very helpful:
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
http://www.westpointchurch.org/board/
http://www.online-literature.com/
http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/wphil/lectures/wphil_theme17.htm<br />
http://www.lrp-cofi.org/PR/atheistsPR66.html