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A Maker, Not a Master

 


You know what, maybe I can come to terms with the existence of “God,” but not with the conventional idea of God. In our physical world, everything we know has a creator - nothing can just appear out of nowhere - so it is completely justifiable to believe that there exists a creator for our world, our universe even.

One of the first rebuttals from atheists and agnostics when they are asked why they believe “God” doesn’t exist is that it’s widely accepted that God is an all-divine being who has the ability to change the course of fate - omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient - so if this is true, then suffering shouldn’t be a thing on earth. Devastation and destruction would not have been engraved in our bones. God is believed to be immortal - a phenomenon not known or present in earthly beings, hence abstruse to the mind.

Have you ever thought about it this way: we ourselves - us humans - are creators too. Creators of life. So are the animals and plants that inhabit this earth, but we do not possess the sublime attributed to the creator of the world. We are not immortal, so why do we claim that the creator of the world and universe is?

As someone that doesn’t entirely believe in God but doesn’t dismiss His existence entirely, I think yes… there has to have been someone or something that was a cause of life on our planet. A being that has the power of creation but not the power of intervention. We have free will, hence the atrocities in which we live. We are beings that have the ability to think and decide, beings who are not under the control of a higher power but under the control of our own mercy.

Human beings come together to proliferate. They become parents to their offspring, they raise them and mold them, but at the end of the day the children are their own people, with their own wants, thoughts, and dreams - something that can never be fully influenced by their creators. In the bigger picture, humans must be the same way with respect to the creator of our species. Perhaps thats why life on earth is not filled with goodness because the attributes of our creator cannot permeate our souls because if we did we can't be considered independant on the one who made us - in that case we would essentially we robots with no inherent mind of our own. Maybe this is the only conclusion that warrants the exsistence of evil, becasue no one is the same. within the presence of good there deems to exsist its opposite without which there will be no balance.


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