So I believe in God, and I believe in the soul etc.
Why? Primarily because I can feel it. There is a fundamental difference between life and non-life. There is a spirit to it. People claim this is hogswash..."feeling it" is a load of subjective crap and means nothing until "science" proves it. I see it differently, namely that if there is a spirit, a soul, then it would be something that we could intrinsically feel, something we could inherently distinguish from that which has no spirit. So, in that view, "feeling it" makes sense to me, as if this is how it should be.
Also, I feel that, these days, many, if not all, atheists hold their views because they do not want there to be anything bigger than them, anything they may have to, for lack of a better term, bow down to. It is modern narcissism at its finest. Atheism is convenient for their self-centredness.
But what is God, then?
I don't see The Bible as containing an accurate reflection of God. Elements of it? Sure, largely in terms of morality, but I can see a lot in other religions, too. Not so much Islam, apart from Sufism, but Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism especially. So, I don't think God is some bearded dude sitting on a throne or whatever, and I don't think Genesis is even close to a true description of creation and/or early man.
Evolution is correct and the big bang caused the birth of the Universe. These are not subject to discussion, except perhaps in terms of fine tuning.
So what is God, then?
Non-interventionist, for a start. God set the Universe in motion, and created its laws, but stuff like parting the Red Sea? No. This is counter-intuitive to how God would work. Where's the success, the development, the spiritual evolution if God does everything for us? It wouldn't exist, so God does not physically intervene in the Universe. We are left to our own devices, so to speak, and must earn our own spiritual development.
Having said that, I believe God would have set certain things in motion to act as influencers of life (in our case, humanity). I'm continually freaked out by the perfection of the Moon and eclipses, especially in the context of how it would have driven our cultural and spiritual development. Perfect size, perfect shape at the perfect time. Set by God at the beginning of the Universe to time with humanity's existence to aid, or push, our development? Perhaps, as weird as that seems.
I also think that the Christ was a prophet. The Christ was part of the mechanism of the Universe, sent to tweak our spiritual direction from collective (or authority based) to an individual orientation (which is exactly the legacy that the Christ has left, even if humanity has screwed that up and distorted it). That doesn't mean that I believe that Christianity is the one true religion, as I see it as having been taken out of context (typical in terms of what humanity does). I do see the Christ, however, as possibly the most pivotal human in history.
So what about the soul? Is there Heaven, or Hell?
I don't think so. The underlying fundamental aspect of the Universe is the Law of the Conservation of Energy - there has always been the exact same amount of energy in the Universe from the first moment until now. It just simply gets recycled as something else.
If this was true, and Heaven/Hell existed...then think of an hourglass, with the sand being the spirit. Eventually, as souls pass through Earth...the sand runs out. Then what? The Universe becomes empty and devoid of life? That makes no sense. Or is the Universe timed to end at the same time as the spirit runs out? If this was true then it takes away our free will, as the timings of births and deaths would have to be predetermined. And God won't end the Universe whenever the spirit just runs out because, remember, God is not interventionist.
So how do we get around this? Reincarnation. This way, the spirit is recycled and, however long the Universe takes to end, we can have our free will to act (and procreate, and die) as we see fit. Reincarnation allows the Universe to maintain the Conservation of Energy and free will at the same time.
So, there you go. The way I see it, God exists, God is not interventionist, we have free will, the spirit is reincarnated and the Christ was the most important person in history.
For the record, I also believe in aliens (as in, they're here right now) as well as something like Atlantis. Oh, and the Illuminati.
Thanks for reading.
