It is obvious that because
we can create things then we begin to compare ourselves to God. Who is fooling
who, God or man? We do not have time for God any longer. Let God be; if He
exists, and let us be. We can do without God and for that we do not need God’s
interference. Nevertheless, even if God exists why does he allow certain evils
to happen?
Why do I go to church;
to pray? If I have everything I need or if I can do anything I wish to do, I
think I should not attribute my success to God.
A German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche in “The Gay Science”, 1882, Section 125 wrote, “God is
dead”.
"God is dead"
does not mean that Nietzsche believed in an actual God who first existed and
then died in a literal sense. Rather, it conveys his view that the Christian
God is no longer a credible source of absolute moral principles.
The death of God is a
way of saying that humans are no longer able to believe in any such cosmic
order since they themselves no longer recognize it.
Nietzsche believed
there could be positive possibilities for humans without God. Relinquishing the
belief in God opens the way for human creative abilities to fully develop. The
Christian God, he wrote, would no longer stand in the way, so human beings
might stop turning their eyes toward a supernatural realm and begin to
acknowledge the value of this world.
May be he's afraid of
us and is hiding, as stated by madman in the Gay Science
Just take a cursory
look on what is happening in the world now. If God exists, why do we especially
the Christians live as though He is dead? No wonder Gandhi wrote, “I love your Christ
but hate Christians”.
What of THE TITANIC?
The largest ship of that day, It was one of the fastest ships of that day. It was the most luxurious ship ever built.
After the construction,
they said, “that even God cannot sink it”. And what followed?
"Gentlemen, I
regret to say that the Titanic sank at 2:20 this morning." This
announcement was made by Philip Franklin, vice president of the White Star Line
in New York. He referred to the sinking of the luxury ocean liner the Titanic,
which sank in the North Atlantic on the morning of April 14, 1912, after
hitting an iceberg. Of the 2200 people on board, over 1500 of them died. Yes
they claimed they can do without God.
Furthermore, Herod in
the Bible (Acts 12:23) wanted to make
himself a God and Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness,
because he accepted the people's worship instead of giving the glory to God. So
he was consumed with worms and died.
There are many other
who either claimed to be God or removed God in their lives.
Even the so called
philosophers whom we think disregard God also proved the existence of God.
Heraclitus said that God is that change who changes everything but does not
change. Plato called God unmovable mover; that which moves everything but does
not move.
Let us stop fooling
ourselves, if we ignore God, probably God will ignore us. Let us go back to
him, he will accept us back. Believe it or not, He knows your whereabouts and He is waiting to accept you back.
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