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Alert And Oriented Times 1 (God just makes sense)
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God just makes sense.

No, Im not saying I can truly understand who He is, or why He does the things He does. My mind isnt even close to really grasping how great He is and I would never presume to know His mind. Im saying that the idea of God makes sense. Maybe its just the way my brain is wired. I simply cant comprehend how somebody would say something as foolish as there is no God. In all issues I really do try to see things from other peoples perspectives as well, but that one just boggles my mind.

Being who I am, I tend to ask myself the why questions more than the how. I dont really have the inclination to spend a lifetime trying to focus on a few specific how questions. Science only interests me at the intersection of my real loves: God and history. That being said, I have read some and it does appear to me that two big questions: how does the universe exist? and how did it start? both have no solid answer. Oh, yes, we have ideas. But any thinking scientist acknowledges that we are just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding and in reality we have only the vaguest idea.

With no definitive answers it seems to make sense to me to use Occams Razor. Use the simplest solution. Looking at the forest rather than the trees I see two things that need to be addressed simultaneously: Contingency and Order. (contingency = who made the apple?; Order = what design doesnt have a designer?) Trying to keep this short the simplest and easiest answer that satisfies both these questions is that all creation had a Creator.

But God makes more sense than just that. After all, there are other more convoluted answers that plenty of other people are more comfortable using as rationalizations for denying God. Then they try to turn the question on its head saying something like, If God is real, why all the suffering in this world? In my opinion that question begs the existence of God in two ways:

1) Who is to say that death is bad? Or murder? Or suffering? In asking existential questions are we not relying on a moral code that seems universal, in its broader points, throughout the world? After all is not nearly all our suffering a product of others moral choices? Would poverty exist in the third world if the West was not so greedy? Would Joe have died if Bill had not been driving drunk? Where did this idea of moral right and wrong come from?

2) In showing discontent in things beyond human control like the tsunami in Indonesia and hurricane Katrina dont we show a yearning for a better world than this? Dont we instinctively recognize that we were made for more than this world has to offer? What other animal or aspect of nature react in the same way? There is something in us that longs for a home and, on some level, we realize that this is not it.

But even this many people will rationalize away to keep themselves comfortable in their ignorance. They would rather remain at alert and oriented times zero than acknowledge their longing for something more. That is their choice but it is not one I cannot make. Beyond this yearning in me, I can see how tens, no hundreds of thousands of people have found an answer to their yearning. Im not talking about lunatics or just simple minds but many, if not most of the best and brightest throughout history. I cannot deny their claims to have had an experience with a living God. It is a subjective experience and I can only look at how it has impacted their life and judge that they really believed.

But, like I said, it is subjective. I can never know for sure how real their encounter with God was. I guess it is possible that such a great number of people were, for one reason or another, all lying. Its not plausible, but it is possible. After all, 0.0001% chance is still a chance. What I cannot deny is how God has impacted my life. I can tell about this experience to others but I cannot really share it. It is something everyone has to experience on their own.

So if you are tired of your denial. If the yearning has become too great to ignore, dont worry. Giving God a chance will not make you a lunatic. Rather it is common sense. God just makes sense.

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