by will sprout

Created on: July 21, 2010

Can God exist?

What exactly exists and what is simply present?

It is believed that all life on earth exists.

That means you, me and all living existences on this planet.

Although the earth lives it cannot be included in this list because the earth has no mortal or physical life, just like the moon, stars and other planets; these ‘globes’ in space are present, and have been present for thousands of millions of years.

God has been present for even longer!

So therefore, what really exists?

According to Wikipedia; Quote: In common usage, existence is the world we are aware of through our senses, and that persists independently without them. In academic philosophy the word has a more specialized meaning, being contrasted with essence, which specifies different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties. End of Quote.

We are only aware of the world because we are “aware;” we are aware because we exist! We recognise all around us and by identification with it, we assume that because we exist ‘it also exists.’ In the more philosophical scence this essence is the existence, it is that which is ever present.

So ask yourself; if we ceased to exist would all around us cease to exist?

Because we cannot exist permanantly, then we do not exist, but are merely a presence in an existance; in this instance the real existence is the known universe, the laws of nature etc. Where we only exist because it exists.

God, who is an eternal essence also exists; because God IS permanent;  in the minds of present man he remains real in their lives, he becomes an “idea” in their, our existence. We could argue that this idea was formulated by nothing more than a superstitious suggestion arrising from the prehistoric days before men where civilised. Yet consider the word civilised; the word basically means organised.

So before men were organised they knew God?

These people who could not read, nor write or do anything associated to a civilisation, recognised a God. Why should an uncivilised people recognise the supreme power of God and yet not understand the identification of what they observed?

Is it that they did recognise or identify a force or essence prominent in their lives?

Because we are, what would be termed civilised or educated, it could be said that we reason by deduction. Some people will decide that their reasoning denies God while others will admit to affirming the existence of God.

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