Recently we have
talked about the question, “does God exist?” We have read numerous arguments
and discussed thoroughly the possible reasoning behind God’s existence. We have
discussed God as the greatest possible being and part of that is existence, but
the answer to the existence of God, I believe, can be found in history and an
examination of ancient gods no longer believed
For example, the
ancient Greek gods were believed to control parts of life that we now attribute
to natural phenomena and ordinary occurrences. The Greeks accredit Zeus, the
god of lightning, as the source of thunder and lightning. Now we understand
lightning as a massive electrostatic discharge caused by unbalanced electric
charge in the atmosphere. By this then miracles credited to modern gods could
just things we do not understand yet.
Perhaps we find
these modern gods more believable because we do not attribute what we know by
science or philosophy, but rather things we cannot understand, such as life
after death. Life after death is an idea addressed in every modern religion and
ancient religion. This is because this is one idea that cannot be proven one
way or another. Due to the fact we cannot know Heaven or Paradise should not be
more or less right than the Greek underworld or the Egyptian afterlife.
This then states
that modern gods and ancient gods are identical in purpose and their origin.
Both sets of gods were and are believed because what they represent and control
are ideas and occurrences unknown to human perception and understanding. The
existence of a certain god or set of gods is based on beliefs of the people of
the world, because we believe in a god we give it the possibility of reality.
That is why regard the Judeo-Christian God as more probable to exist than Zeus
or Osiris. The question, “does God exist?” is only entertained by human belief
and the more we believe in a certain god the more “real” it seems. What we
discover as reasons behind events create gods and therefore none of these gods
are real as they are human creation to comfort them from the unknown.
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