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Think carefully and take time if you need to ponder on what our ultimate cause is. Before you go quickly thinking of amino acids and proteins or thinking of the earth evolving with the rest of the universe, think harder. What is the absolute first thing that you think existed and ultimately started the chain of events leading to human beings.
When you have chosen a logical answer, whether it be the universe, or perhaps the Big Bang, branes, or even God, start to think of the cause, or what created your answer.
If you actually manage to sensibly answer what created your first answer, then what was the cause or what created that answer?
By this point you are probably stumped on what could have created your answer. What caused God? What caused the universe? What caused the Big Bang, and what caused the cause of the Big Bang? and so on and so forth.
Eventually, you will hit a road block that the human mind simply cannot comprehend. You have hit the eternal cause of all existence. One of the more common excuses people use to reject God is that it does not make sense that God would exist.
They say, "Well if God created all of existence, then who created God? It does not make sense."
They are actually right. It does not make sense. Human beings lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend what "eternal" truly is. We are unable to properly define and understand what infinite means. Mathematics cannot solve
The rub however, is that this fact alone does not give nonbelievers the excuse they are looking for. The fact of the matter is that no matter your belief on "what came first" you have to realize that "whatever came first" could not of had a cause either, and must be eternal. Whether you believe the universe is all there is and came first, or you believe whatever came before the big bang came first, or you believe God created the universe, something had to have "always" existed in order for us to be here.
Again, this concept is something we cannot hope to explain or comprehend as we are finite beings. Thus, the seemingly impossible, yet what obviously happened paradox of our existence is indeed absolute proof that miracles do exist.
Every glance in the mirror, every step taken, every hug, every kiss, every random thought is the result of an inexplicable miracle that we call our mere existence.
From the last section we know that no matter what your personal theory is on the ultimate cause of our existence, it does not make logical sense. Whether you believe God is responsible for all existence, or that the universe is all there is in existence, or you believe whatever came before the big bang is responsible for all of existence, or whatever came before that, so on and so forth. Some point down the line you will hit a wall named "eternity" that cannot be explained.
This is an important first step to get over, and luckily, for our limited mental capacity, it has been made for us, because even though it does not make logical sense... *POOF* Here we are.
The most important thing about this exercise is that it completely counters the argument that God creating everything in existence does not make sense, because then who created God? A circular argument can be made against the other's theory on who created their cause for all of existence.
EDIT: The point has been made that this is not necessarily a "religious" miracle, so this may somehow take away from the point. The problem with this line of thinking is that ultimately, in it's purest form, a miracle is simply something that cannot be comprehended.
Some will be quick to point out that we were once ignorant about other things like the universe, or other discoveries and advancement in technology, but this is different.
Humans are finite beings and we cannot comprehend eternal. Science cannot observe what eternal is, because there is no cause for eternal. Mathematics cannot equate the value of infinity or divide by 0.
Infinite is simply something that will never be comprehended by human beings, observed by science, or equated in mathematics.
Christians claim Jesus was able to perform miracles, but non-believers claim he did no such thing because miracles do not happen, and if he were here to perform them today, our science and human comprehension would be able to explain how Jesus performed these so-called miracles.
This has been illustrated to be incorrect, because we are all absolute proof that miracles do indeed exist.
Thank you and God Bless
Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
ReplyDeleteExcept for one small error in your thinking.
What you constitute as a miracle is "something beyond human comprehension".
Alright, you don't even have to take religion into this. Visualise the 4th dimension. There, that's another thing that proves miracles exist.
But the issue I have is that you don't define what a Miracle is. Some may see your argument and think that you are referring to some religious Miracle. To which there is no evidence, no reason to believe one way or another that they do exist. The argument you are using is not religious at all.
Apart from that, I would agree that we can't understand it, I would say instead of it being a Miracle, it would be our Ignorance.
So yeah, we are an ignorant bunch aren't we?
God is not real.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments.
ReplyDelete1st Anonymous, I fully get your point and agree about the possible misinterpretation; however, I disagree, at the same time, in the whole line of thinking that there is such a great difference between a miracle, and a religious miracle. Sure, a religious miracle is a more specific kind, but at the absolute purest definition, a miracle is simply something that cannot be explained.
I understand people will go on to say at one time, we could not explain certain things that science has been unable to uncover for us, but now those things can be explained.
This is different again because man is a finite being, and we simply cannot comprehend infinite. Science cannot properly define, or observe infinite because there is no cause for infinite. Mathematics can not equate infinite, and cannot divide by 0.
Eternity is something that man will never comprehend in our current form.
So thank you, and I will actually edit some of this information and explanation in to the article.
Anonymous 2, I want to thank you as well, as you have given me the perfect inspiration for my next article.