The Truth

   What is it? What is the truth? Who is to say what the truth is? Who is to say what we seek is the truth? We've been told, time and time again, that God is the truth. Or is it?


   What is God? Some say that He is an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being that created the universe and mankind. Others say that god is the scapegoat of humanity. The biggest excuse and the largest reason behind the murdering of thousands. A brain-washing technique. Something that people hide before, while others mock. Someone that some worship while others cannot tolerate hearing the name of. No matter what anyone thinks, let's step back for a second and assume that God really exists. Let us examine one possibility.


   If God exists, why would He have created the Universe and mankind? If you have read my previous posts, you would see that my theory is that we're here to ultimately prove Lucifer wrong. But that leaves one thinking, why would He create Lucifer in the first place? Forget Lucifer, why would He create angels in the first place? Because He was lonely? But didn't He say that He needs no one? These give rise to new questions that have no answers. Perhaps we're missing part of the picture.


   After thinking about such things, something becomes apparent. Before, thousands of years ago, people used to worship the Sun because they thought that it was a god. Now, science has proven otherwise. What if the same happens to the God that we believe in (or some of us do, rather)? Before, we said that God created the Universe, now, we say the Big Bang created the Universe. Before, we had nothing to explain what it was that triggered the Big Bang, now, some scientists believe that it's due to two membranes of space-time hitting one another. Now, we're left with the question, what created space-time? Once again, we turn to God. It seems that we have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, but whenever we can no longer find any glasses of water, we fill that glass by turning to God and saying that He is our water. So, does God really exist?


   In my opinion, yes. And I'm not just saying that blindly because my religion tells me that I have to believe in God, otherwise, I'd burn in the fiery pits of hell for all of eternity. No, there is actually reasoning behind it. I see the order of the universe, from the order of how the electrons move around the nucleus and don't just crash into it, to how the galaxies are distributed evenly throughout space, something that would be practically impossible if the Universe was created by chance. At the end of the day, things just seem to work out. Everything is working, both independently and with one another. Would things not fall apart really quickly if the Big Bang was simply by chance, if nothing guided the events that proceeded the creation of the Universe? Is this really all chance?


   No. Of course not. We all see that every single day in our lives. Perhaps I'm not a crazy religious person and perhaps I don't understand why God exists or how He exists and how the Universe works and what created space-time and what was there before nothing and how it is that we believe in God even though there is no proof of Him, yet there had to have been if He were to give us the big books of religion.


   But I still do believe in Him and I still consider myself a religious person. Just because I don't pray five times a day doesn't mean that I don't believe in God or that I don't believe in my religion. I simply believe that those sets of rules were meant for thousands of years ago and don't necessarily apply to today. Sure, God is all knowing and would have known about today and wrote the books (through His mediums) with regard to today as well, but how could He have applied it to those days and today without confusing everyone and still say it in a way that people could understand? What, He'd have put multiple chapters and condemned people of ages ago to "not read ahead?" And even so, even if He could  see the future and took into consideration that the laws had to hold true for all time, why would He send out multiple people to write multiple books? Because times had changed? Is that not contradictory? This is why I say not all things in the Bible, the Qur'an or the Tanakh apply to things today. For example, the Islamic book forbids eating pork. This was, according to many, due to the fact that pigs were not cooked properly back then and contained many worms, but that doesn't really apply today anymore. Same thing goes for not drinking out of a bowl which a dog drank out of. Back then, there were no vaccines for dogs that had rabies, and the illness could pass through water. But there are now, so again, that statement no longer holds true. Perhaps it's time for a new book, considering how the world is getting worse daily?


   But no matter, many still believe in religion. And things stated in their religion are being proven by scientists. For example, we are gathering more and more proof of the existence of the Big Bang (such as the cosmic microwave background, observed decades ago and more recently, dark energy, explaining why galaxies are spreading apart at an ever increasingly speed). If we find enough evidence and prove that there really was a Big Bang, almost 13.8 billion years ago, then that must mean that the volume of the Universe was, at some point, zero. Which would mean that the density was infinite, since the Universe has some mass. Didn't God say that, thousands of years ago, that the Universe was created out of nothing? So it took an infinite amount of energy to create it. Perhaps that is why we cannot fully understand God, because we simply cannot imagine infinity (really, it gets difficult past a thousand).


   Perhaps that's what science and religion really are. They are like eyes. They are humanity's tools, which we all need to use. Like eyes, though, there needs to be something in between to put together the two pictures to make sense of everything. Perhaps, like a brain for the eyes, we need a medium to connect science and religion. I don't know what that medium is. Perhaps someone will soon find that medium, or perhaps it's up to us. If you have any ideas, let me know below.


   One thing that I do know, is that God exists. For the above mentioned and for one more reason. I believe in God, just in case. I'm sure that I will die some day, of that there is no doubt, because even though there are no documents of observing God, there are millions upon millions of people passing on. So, of death, there is no doubt. There are two possible scenarios. If God exists, and I believe in Him, hopefully, after I die, I will go into heaven. If He doesn't, then what was the harm in believing? Certainly, in both scenarios, it's better than not believing.


   With the above said, I leave you with this. No matter what, no matter what you believe, no matter who you are, may we all be blessed. Whoever you are, I wish you all the best.