“In
the beginning God created heaven and earth, but the earth was so dark, so he
created light and separated light from the darkness. On the second day, he only
created the sky. On the third day, he gathered all the water and put it
someplace else and formed the land, he also created plants and trees on the
land. On day 4, he created the sun, moon, stars and other such stuffs. Day 5,
he created all the living creatures in the sea, and all the creatures that
could fly. And finally, on day 6, he created all the living animals (including us
humans).”
This must be the first ever recorded occurring
of God in the history. But where was this God before that? Nobody seems to know.
Where has he gone after that? Nobody knows that either. But there is an
alternate story! It goes like this, Earth was formed through the process accretion.
Due to the hotter surface back then, it took periods of volcanic outgassing to
form the primordial atmosphere. Through time, earth cooled down, allowing water
to exist on its surface, which subsequently helped form life in water.
Gradually life expanded out of water and into plants and then animals. And
later into humans. Which finally led into conceiving the “God”. Sure, for a
conservative it is going to seem a little complicated. But don’t you think life
is ought to be a little complicated?
God is a creation of man, and not
the other way around. Probably in the medieval times, some wise man saw into
the future and thought that an illusionary power like god would be a good
morale for the human mind. Because, I refuse to believe that we always had this
natural tendency for wanting to be ruled over or necessity to have a superior
figure over us all the time. I think such human notions are the outcome of our species’
centuries of worshipping God. Although, I cannot completely be critical towards
it, the creation of such a force. Because, if such an invention never happened,
I don’t think our life would have been this disciplined or as civilized as it
is right now. So, I believe, in a sense, it must have benefited us a lot in the
process of shaping up the human behaviors (or so in the beginning). Through time,
the theory of god expanded, now it’s almost impossible to figure out If there
was indeed a god, and if so, which one is the real one. Because then, first we would
have to decide on whether there is only one god or if there are numerous ones,
if it is just one god, then the next question would be which one? And if there
are numerous gods, how many? And finally, all will be concluded with, could it
all just be the same?
By the time civilization has really
happened, there probably were millions of stories regarding the origin and
other such mysteries. While some of the stories survived the conflicts between
the others, some went extinct. Even though the stories got lesser as the horde expanded,
people got more committed in their beliefs.
I think defining God is one’s carte
blanche. But by normal definition- God is omnipotent, the begetter and the
ruler of the universe. But what if God is only your knowledge and Devil your
intuitions?
According to bible, Satan
represents our negative thoughts. In that sense, God is our positive thoughts. Considering
that, we can safely conclude our thoughts are what actually supreme of all. It
is supported in the Hindu scriptures too, according to the Vedas, ‘Paramathma’,
which is the higher power of all is not a person nor have any physical forms,
but is a state of consciousness. Whether
these texts are authentic or not, according to them God is merely our thoughts.
Of course, people would interpret it differently. A theist would simply
consider it as God controlling our thoughts. But to me it doesn’t make any
sense, as the God isn’t doing anything to stop the catastrophes, then it would
mean he is either not omnipotent or he is just pure evil. If he is neither, he
doesn’t exist.
The God is like a drug. While it has
been an effective resistance towards many of our psychological problems, it has
some side effects too. God is a great motivator, maybe even the best in the
world. If you think about it, God is the second greatest medicine (love is the
first) for hopeless, desperate and the weak people. But I would say its side
effects are more severe, the God will start impeding your thought process the
moment you give in. And since the God can only feed you with his/her (its?)
truth and does not want you to think, it is only going to make you naïve.
In conclusion, if there is indeed a
God, without any doubt my life would be much easier. But until then, when a
theist yearns for the kindness of his lord, I will simply depend on the randomness
of the universe. The only difference there is going to be is that I won’t be
disappointed at the randomness of the universe.
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