EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF GOD

// Is Eyewitness Proof Enough to Prosecute? //

No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:14

Discover Magazine just came out with an article, “85% of the universe is missing. The world’s top physics detectives are teaming up to find it.”

Interesting is that of the 15% we have defined – we hardly understand it! Much of my textbooks in biology and physics were full of question marks. We do not fully understand how the stomach operates, or how to cure a common migraine headache, or even decisively decide on how many planets our solar system has. We do have numerous ways to numb or mask problems but appear to have very few to solve them. If you understood only 15% of how a computer operated would we be able to build one? Yet, this is what I believe many do scientifically with the questions of the unknown, God and the supernatural. How many generations before us of brilliant scientists and thinkers have lived and died, only to be found wrong in the coming generations? Will our generation be any different?

With that being said, how are we so certain there is no God. Why would anyone gamble eternity on such little assurance? If I only studied 15% of my class materials would I really expect to pass the exam? I am not trying to belittle the scientific but merely pointing out that in itself, I believe there to be inadequate evidence to confidently disprove the existence of God, and thereby humanity’s lack of need for one.

Take for example, the experience and perception of love, beauty or pain. These have moved humanities heart and money beyond reason, and these factors have historically built and / or destroyed civilizations. Yet, are they not completely subjective to the one experiencing them? What is laughable or beautiful to one is not necessarily to another. This is especially seen when looking at humor across cultural and national boundaries. The same could be said of the experience of a movie or the beauty of a sunrise. However, no one would question their existence merely due to the subjectivity of their experience. Scientifically we can hormonally measure the effect of such stimuli, and therefore validate their existence, but why have countless generations and billions of individuals experienced God hormonally yet we deny Him the same luxury? If we were to apply the same rigorous scientific tests and apologetics to them, as we do to the debate of God, would we really have enough concrete evidence to prove their existence?

Another example of where human perception and testimony is a legitimate source of evidence would be in court. Eyewitness testimony is legally enough to prove one’s innocence or guilt in the court of law, so why not in the Case for God?

Even with this there will always be holes in every argument. I can name ten things that can be debated with my own reasoning. Like why so many testimonies of other religions then, are they all right? But that’s the beauty of this debate and about the discussion of God or no God. Will we ever have enough knowledge to absolutely know? Looking at the history of humanity I would bet on no. In every area of science and reason, the more we discover, the more questions we appear to accumulate. In other words, every answer we find to an existing problem only seems to attract 100 more questions.

However, with bias, I would object that it is revealing to me that Jesus is considered a prophet in most every religion, while most others can’t even transcend their own. Also, as mentioned above, this would be the point of faith and the Bible. It is written in a way that cannot be figured out or formulated, salvation impartial to intelligence. Both, cannot be rationalized to a point of complete understanding, only leaving us with one single option, faith. In that aim, only, over knowledge, will humanity finally have enough.

Imagine yourself back in middle school, it’s P.E. and everyone is getting picked but you. Everything inside you breaks with the realization that you’ll soon be last and most likely never have the ability and no-how to be picked first. You search for some form of talent but seem to find none. What are your options?

In faith and belief, God bypassed reason and ability, by putting within everyone’s reach happiness—now. That’s the only fair way to do it. If based on ones ability to reason, then the unintelligent are damned and given no opportunity for joy, happiness, and salvation for that matter. If based on faith alone, we ALL have an opportunity for salvation thereby, to know love and give it. Humanities greatest exploit will not be an acquisition of knowledge, or one of engineering feat but that of learning to believe and to love. Let’s just say, I am so much happier with this option for humanity versus what survival of the fittest offers.