Faith

Faith is an interesting thing. It’s one of those overly broad terms that cannot be absolutely defined. Kind of like hope, love, or grace. These things mean different things to different people. Therefore, it is impossible to judge any one persons interpretation of these things. Do not mistake me, there are facts in this world. Hard definable facts that are very difficult to argue with. But I don’t really feel like talking about facts. I’d rather talk about faith.

Not a lot of people ask me about my faith. Perhaps its become a bit of a taboo subject nowadays. Which is kind of a shame if you ask me. People should feel free to discuss such things in a calm and constructive manner. And yet, for whatever reason, most of us don’t talk about our beliefs. Maybe it’s because we don’t often try to think them through. It’s a bit of a depressing topic, one’s own moral views. It’s a bit like thinking about death. They both have a sort of eerie condemnation to them, it seems.

I am digressing. About faith. When I do talk about my faith with others, one of the first things that inevitably comes out is how I think God could possibly exist, created the world, etc. And, just supposing he did exist, where did he come from? Asking where God came from is like asking how long the existed, or, to be more simple, where a circle starts. Maybe there will be some great mathematician that will find where a circle starts, and maybe there will be another that proves God doesn’t exist. But for now, I hold to that a circle starts no where, and every where. Human beings are lines. Straight, flat lines that maybe curve a tiny bit, but were very point A to point B creatures. We’re born, we live, we die. Now I ask you, how can a line understand a circle? How can timed creatures understand the eternal? The simple answer is that we cant. I can’t, you can’t, no one in the world as of right now can. If you think I’m wrong, I challenge you to find someone who can. The point is I’m trying to make here is that God is, in essence, eternal. Like a circle, he started everywhere and nowhere. Constantly and never. And no, I don’t expect you to fully understand that, because honestly neither do I. Just like everyone else, eternity is beyond my perception.

Now don’t make the mistake of thinking that I’m saying God is so far above our perception that none of us should ever question his “plan.” Maybe there isn’t even a plan. I don’t know, I’m not trying to prove that.

So what makes me so sure there even is a God? Let’s look at the alternative shall we? Assume for a moment, that there is no God. Everything else that you know holds, but there is most definitely no such thing as God. How do explain why things happen, I might ask you? How do you explain why one man dies or another doesn’t. Why a piano falls and hits one man, but not the one standing next to him. Something to puzzle over, isn’t it. Pushing aside that there is some sort of divine entity controlling all of this, lets look at another possibility. Let us theorize that life is, in fact, a crapshoot, as, quite obviously, the evidence seems to point to. After all, there is no perceivable rhyme and reason to the universe, and therefore, it must not exist. And if there is, well, sorry, you just admitted there is God. For how could there be reasoning behind the scenes when there is no one back there with them? I hold that God is that reasoning behind the scenes. But we are straying from our point. We’re supposed to be assuming there is no God, correct?

Alright, so life is a crapshoot. In essence, dice, falling one way or another, completely randomly. But where are these dice? Can you see them? Can anyone see them? When you roll a die, the result is a summation of gravitational laws and x-factors acting upon the die’s surface. But what is rolling the dice? What are the cosmic dice’s x-factors and gravitational forces? Saying that there are such things puts it that such results could predicted, and are therefore being somehow controlled. For what’s the use in having anything predicted if you haven’t already set the event in motion to make it so? God is not shooting the dice, and neither are we. God already knows where the dice are already going to fall. Why? Because he sees every side of the die. Perhaps God even is the die. He can already see everything affecting the die. And therefore, if we truly to roll them, what would be the point? If you flip a double-headed coin, are you really surprised that it turns up heads? Or, better yet, if you lay a regular coin down on the table so that it displays tails, are the results of the flip a surprise?

The point I’m trying to make in all this is that things happen in our universe. And something makes them happen. Everything is cause and effect. Just because you cant see every detail effecting the outcome, doesn’t mean they won’t drastically effect the outcome, and just because we cannot comprehend the eternal, does not mean that God does not exist.