by Balqees Mohammed

Created on: March 18, 2010

The age-old question, Does God exist?, has plagued man since his first infusion into this earth, linked with the associating question of Why am I here? Or What is the reason for my existence? Invariably, through the ages, man has tried to answer these questions through his own limited knowledge and feeble attempts at philosophizing about it.

There is no denying the existence of the scriptures as a possible means of answering these questions and explaining their answers. They have been around, adhered to as well as questioned and even sometimes denied, much longer than our own short existence on this earth.

We all think of philosophy as a rather non-scientific means of reasoning with things of this life. I, however, propose that it is a scientifically based method of reasoning and study to base our knowledge and hence our eventual resulting understanding of all that concerns us in this life. Our beliefs are the result of not only behavioral training which begins to formulate even before we are born, but then can take on veins of change as we grow, due to deduction, which is scientifically balanced.

Regardless of whatever society, traditions and religion (or lack of) we are born into, we begin our travels in this life based upon learned behavioral patterns, learned first and foremost from our parents or primary care-givers in our younger years, and then branching out to learning from those around us, from our teachers to our peers, by which we eventually find our own preferred path.

For so many, we simply get caught up in the day to day effort of the need to find our own daily required sustenance that we do not question whatever behavior we have been trained from birth to follow, and so we simply follow that without even questioning it or looking for something else or perhaps something more. But for a growing many in this ever growing world which has developed into a global village, what we have learned since birth is no longer sufficient, and hence we reach out in search for whatever it is that will satisfy our hungry souls. It is for those select individuals who nothing less than truth which will be the strong underlying foundation for the eventual structure of belief in God, which will in turn fuel our own attention and adherence to religion.

Perhaps many of you are now thinking: Why religion? Why the need for religion?

To this, I answer, Be patient. The answer will come, eventually.

Back to the scriptures. They are many. Perhaps more than so many people realize.

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