by Natasha Ooh

Created on: January 03, 2009

I often wonder how the believed existence of God has turned into a global theory for the beginning of life and the universe. This is for one simple reason... the theory of a God actually comes from the ancient greek philosopher's and their opinions of life itself. This was then manipulated by the early religious theorists to fit their own idea of 'God'. From this point people have suffered and found victory from 'God.' Yet the idea of a God wasn't initially a God at all. But is He there?

Personal opinion is no. I say this not for the usual excuse of: there's too much suffering in the world for there to be a God. Because there can logically be a God and still have evil on Earth. No, what my main arguement as to why he doesn't exist is because nothing fits. The puzzle is not even 2/3 of the way completed as to things on Earth and yet people can find the faith in something outside a universe as a reason behind existance, why is that the only logical solution to them? When looking at Aristotle and his theory of causality you discover one of the main origins of something called the Prime Mover, this idea is of a substance outside time and space that is exempt from the four causes and made everything in it. The Prime Mover wasn't a person, it was a substance, it couldn't be touched by prayers, and it wasn't omnipotent etc etc. In fact i'm more inclined to believe the existance of this than the God we consider today. However there was one major flaw in Aristotle's theory, he had no true reason to insert the idea of a Prime Mover, literally, he simply decided it stopped infinate regress. That's all... i wonder if he had stopped with the idea of Time being the prime mover would our ideas be any different?

Do you see where i'm heading with this? The belief of God today is something/someone that is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniescience, omnibenevolent, transcendent and imminant, and still gave humans this idea of freewill. What a lot to live up too... and yet is it actually logical? If God was omnipresent and imminant then the believe would be that he exists on Earth. Yet he is transcendent, existing outside Space and time. I guess to a certain degree all the holy book followers out there will tell me... what about Jesus? Mohammad? etc etc. Well here's the catch. For both prophets their deeds weren't documented until years after their death, also present in a time when myths were believed and heresay was the only thing continuing gossip and stories. There is physical evidence

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