Humanity starts over and over again with every generation. Each one of us is born a clean slate.
We immediately begin to absorb everything we perceive, seeking to understand all that we encounter.
Within the private sovereignty of our hearts we judge what we perceive. We soon find ourselves on a judgment seat with our own perspective presiding.
We naturally accept that our perspective is right without appeal. We defend our perspective and prosecute all witnesses with dissenting views. Every man’s way is right in his own eyes. But how can we all be right? What is the standard of correct judgment? Man is the only creature on earth that has inherited a discernment of good and evil. Our conscience develops and presides over the internal authority of our judgment. We normally obey our conscience to avoid guilt feelings. It is a moral compass.
At some point, each of us encounters an authority greater than our own conscience and that requires a decision to dominate or subjugate our position. These negotiations are ever present and define our character.
With no preconceived notion there is an eventual encounter with the concept of God. Our intellect grapples with this idea as we try to understand it. We either believe in God and accept his authority or else, by default, take the position of God when it comes to our own destiny.
We are individual vessels made of living clay…seeking to understand the incomprehensible. Having the capability to conceive the universe, also gives us the capability to conceive of god. It is my conclusion that we need to understand ourselves before we attempt to understand everything else. In order to understand ourselves, we need to make a critical determination.
- Where did we come from?
- Why are we here?
- What is the purpose of life?
These existential questions have occupied the narrative of great philosophers and theologians alike. Yet even the simplest of us grapple with these same questions. I am perplexed by yet a different question that takes into account all of the aforementioned. For there to be a God that is in charge of everything,
how big must he be? How big is god?
- The great order of the infinite universe.
- The complexity and pliability of life giving DNA
- The perpetual energy found in the smallest particles.
- And the very essence of light…
all beg for an explanation beyond our ability to ascertain. Nevertheless, by assumption, which is another word for faith, we persevere believing that our understanding is preeminent. Unless we accept and submit to a higher authority,we assume the position of judge and jury, seeing things only as we understand them…
All of humanity shares in this fixation. In the end, we all get what we believe. It is our belief that makes things happen. So why not aim high.
We will be judged according to what we have done with what we have been given. It is abundantly clear to me that there is far more to know than we have yet learned. Even that which we know we must rethink as things continue to change. This is a trap that most of us fall into. It’s easy to make the quest for knowledge the God we worship.
Where is the bedrock foundation to support my limited understanding of all things.
Most of us use traditional religious upbringing for a bedrock of belief, while others insist that there is a logical explanation that has nothing to do with belief. Still a very few have found peace in personally knowing the bedrock foundation in whom they believe and trust. All of the questions posed here are evidence of things that we cannot see. Believing in anything that you cannot see requires faith, even if it is called assumption. The answers to the mysteries of the unseen have long existed before these questions. Those willing to search diligently will find the truth. If it is proof you seek, then you’re out of your league and a slave to your own knowledge. There is no peace in that.
This is an open and honest presentation about facts and assumptions that I’ve gleaned from a lifetime of asking difficult questions. With words, we express the effort to come to a conclusion. While seeing only in part, we fill in the gaps with assumptions. But even faith requires a solid foundation…
Come now, let us reason together…