Life or our existence in this world is full of questions. It is a test of our faith — of something we see, or something we don’t and yet we believe in.
Analyzing human and God is in itself a complicated matter. More so, the analytical mind of man enables him or her to continuously search for answers about his or her existence, even to explore about the mysteries of his or her being.
The factors surrounding human’s existence, however, is as vast as the universe he lives in. There are events in a person’s life that are beyond human comprehension. Thus comes a puzzle whether there is an outside force controlling these events.
Who is the creator of this universe? What is the nature of man and what is the relationship of man and God? These questions are common to philosophy, religion and science and they have explored these issues from their own view points. The concepts of human and God are so interwoven that we cannot study them separately.
Most philosophers agree from the fact that the life of human person is different from the life of animals. The human person is different not only because of his or her being rational but also because he or she has this centrality of actions. And this centrality is what we call love. Love is the core of human life. But love itself is not the total fulfillment of a person. Despite having this core, there is this reality that there are still something missing in human life and also there still are some events which cannot be controlled by human power.
There are things like war, injustice, crime, evil which rule in this world. Among these things, death is the greatest of all. We know from the fact and observation that no human person is exempted in experiencing death as the history of human person will tell us. In death, a person reaches the limit of his or her life.
Now, human person searches this missing piece of his or her life and he or she finds it to the Absolute Being or God.
To explain the human and his relationship with God has always been the object of man’s searching and satisfaction-seeking mind. This is human’s intuitive desire that seeks and finds satisfaction in postulating a super human or agencies as the cause or causes of the inexplicable events in the world.
Realizing that in this world, there were so many things that they were unable to overcome, humans began to develop the feeling that there must have been something more powerful beyond their selves existing in this world and Universe. Because the laws of nature bind everything, they tried to learn and seek their cause. From what they got they believed that all of us came from something powerful called God.
In the hope to the Absolute Being, human person then accepts that there is darkness which is part of his or her present life. But he does not accept that it all in this world. He knows that there is a wisdom in it which is greater than in this world he exists in.
Now, we come to the question, is God really existing or is it only made by our limitedness? I read one article about a debate on the existence of a God or Absolute Being. In the conclusion, I was bothered by the answer of the believer.
He said he would rather gamble believing that God really exists even if in the end, it is otherwise. Then, that man loses nothing. But, if he didn’t believe that God really exists but in the end, it was proven He really does, then he loses everything.
Are we like the man who would gamble on the existence of God? Is God really just a product of our mind? If God is only a cover up of our limitedness, we then will not have this dissatisfaction of our essence. We then will be contented of what we now have and not a thing to explore the meaning of our limitedness. Experience will tell us that human person has this drive to seek something greater than him or her that we may call God. God may give this drive to you to realize that He exists.
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