The Riddle of God and Theology

The belief in the existence of God is a fundamental idea found deeply reservoired in the human heart. This belief has been found in every culture, preached in every language, and has endured through time as all other philosophies have faded. Yet, when placed against the tests of reason, logic, and science there is no satisfactory proof.

The great riddle of theology is that God, the idea of God, and the belief in a God is fantastical, illusory, and whimsical when put under the microscope of thoughtful consideration and yet it remains altogether evident.

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If the combined perennial evidence of God in the cultures and societies of the past are not enough to spark consideration upon such a being’s existence consider the following. Not only is intelligent life improbable. Not only is the spark of life itself unlikely. Not only are the chances of a terrestrial sphere capable of supporting life or the celestial mass necessary to allow such a sphere to exist remote. Not only is a galaxy stable enough to keep the stars from colliding in primordial apocalypse incredible in its stability. But, the very existence of the universe, of any form of mass at all, stands an insurmountably small chance of developing and maintaining without at least a divine nudge.

It is perhaps the comedy of all philosophy that while God is an unprovable and incomprehensible idea to our natural faculties, we must nevertheless possess more faith and more gullibility to declare God is dead and the whole of the cosmos exists solely by chance.

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