I was recently reading through a discussion board asking the question ‘Can you give me one logical reason why God exists?’ When I last looked there were 22954 posts by 3023 people. I added to the choas with
The Hebrew word for God means life and power. Does life exist? (You cannot deny that unless you try way too hard) Does power exist? (What lets me move my fingers to type this? What sends the electrons spinning around a nucleus in an atom? What allows our hearts to beat? Everything is powered by power!)
Therefore God exists.
Dont think of God as a dude in the sky, God is everything that exists, and everything that doesnt exist.
I was wondering what other peoples opinions about this are.
January 11th, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Hi Beki,
I’m a friend of Daniel’s
‘Can you give me one logical reason why God exists?’ It sure is a hot topic!! I have a comment I would like to share on your answer to this rather large question:
The problem with using this argument is that a believer in God has asserted by fiat that God is ‘life’ and ‘power’ (whatever s/he may mean by that), by observing that life exists and everything requires power to move doesn’t in anyway suggest that God exists. Using the same logic I could argue that “God is emptiness” and on finding the vacuum of space declare that God must exist because emptiness exists! How do I or anyone else for that matter know that God is ‘empty’? Or that God is ‘life’ and ‘power’? All I can do is use faith to trust the unknowable man (or woman) who wrote this assertion. Faith is not evidence.
I’m not sure if you’ve come across Bertrand Russell’s flying teapot theory. Russell suggests that there is a teapot orbiting the Earth, he has asserted that the teapot is so small that it is undetectable to even the most powerful telescopes. After searching long and hard for the teapot no astronomer or any other scientist could find it. Should we then believe that the teapot exists? After all Russell has already told us that the teapot is too small to detect!! Obviously this is a made up theory (check out Bertrand Russell’s flying teapot on the internet you can read more about it) but it highlights the problem of using blind assertions like this as evidence for the existence of things.
Hope you find the comment useful.
Oli.