Ah yes, Sunday again, my weekly theology post. Today's topic: pretty basic, pretty essential. The topic is "God exists."
God exists, and we can know that for a fact because if God didn't exist, that would leave a God-sized hole in the universe, and as we all know, God being infinite, this would basically be an infinite hole - a hole with no end, bottomless as well as topless, a hole of limitless extent that would inexorably suck up everything else in the universe, and there we'd be: gone. The vanishments! Completely sucked up. Pretty dumb way to go, all because of claiming "no God."
But suppose someone were to argue, "well what if God never existed? God wouldn't leave a hole then, would He?" That's a good point, but really all that the word "never" means is "since before the beginning of time." So really you're just postponing your dilemma. Or to be more accurate, you might be said to be "pre-poning" your dilemma. You're taking the dilemma out of the present, and pushing it off way, way back into the past, before the past even - before the beginning of time. Think that helps your case? To push away your dilemma like that? Think again: okay, let's say for the argument that it's back before the beginning of time, and all of a sudden we have no God. Suddenly we're left with that same problem: there's your God-sized hole again, and this time it blooms into infinity even before eternity has a chance to kick in! The big bang would be swallowed up before it could even light its own fuse.
It's pretty clear from the evidence of the universe continuously unfolding uninterruptedly all around us that there is no God-sized hole. Obviously, God exists.
Now your quantum theoreticians might quibble: suppose there is a God-sized hole, infinite as you say, stretching in all directions but separated from us by a quantum vibrational frequency, such that the whole universe doesn't end up falling into it?
Well I say, that's a nice theory, BUD. But let's see some proof first!
God exists, and we can know that for a fact because if God didn't exist, that would leave a God-sized hole in the universe, and as we all know, God being infinite, this would basically be an infinite hole - a hole with no end, bottomless as well as topless, a hole of limitless extent that would inexorably suck up everything else in the universe, and there we'd be: gone. The vanishments! Completely sucked up. Pretty dumb way to go, all because of claiming "no God."
But suppose someone were to argue, "well what if God never existed? God wouldn't leave a hole then, would He?" That's a good point, but really all that the word "never" means is "since before the beginning of time." So really you're just postponing your dilemma. Or to be more accurate, you might be said to be "pre-poning" your dilemma. You're taking the dilemma out of the present, and pushing it off way, way back into the past, before the past even - before the beginning of time. Think that helps your case? To push away your dilemma like that? Think again: okay, let's say for the argument that it's back before the beginning of time, and all of a sudden we have no God. Suddenly we're left with that same problem: there's your God-sized hole again, and this time it blooms into infinity even before eternity has a chance to kick in! The big bang would be swallowed up before it could even light its own fuse.
It's pretty clear from the evidence of the universe continuously unfolding uninterruptedly all around us that there is no God-sized hole. Obviously, God exists.
Now your quantum theoreticians might quibble: suppose there is a God-sized hole, infinite as you say, stretching in all directions but separated from us by a quantum vibrational frequency, such that the whole universe doesn't end up falling into it?
Well I say, that's a nice theory, BUD. But let's see some proof first!
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