Why Believe?
Why should there be belief, or disbelief?
What is belief?
Belief in what?
If we are mere strings floating in an infinite universe, then what is the purpose of its presence?
In no we do we pretend in this article to any meeting points between reason and metaphysics .
Our approach here is simply to provoke questions.
Final conclusion is left to every individual.
As is known no one argument can be produced to prove the existence of God or to the non-existence of a God.
We assume that belief or disbelief is a personal conviction of every person. Having the mind and the freedom of choice is the mark of human value and dignity.
Persuasive or dissuasive arguments, for or against the existence of a God, are sterile.
Our perspective is to describe a subjective personal outlook for belief.
Knowledge of God is impossible. We either believe or disbelieve in God.
Plato defined knowledge as ‘justified true belief' but this poses the problem of what is ‘belief' and what is ‘true' and to begin with what is ‘knowledge' ?
The perturbing factor here is that whatever is identified as knowledge or belief can be reduced to nothing but a ‘feeling' or ‘sensing' of what is assumed to ‘be'.
The problem is that when inquiring into the nature, structure of matter, knowledge becomes uncertain and we stand on shaky grounds.
Everything is made from atoms and here the subject becomes nothing less certain.
Billions of atoms come together in order to form an object. Just for example as by a miracle.
We have not got the faintest idea ofwhat are atomsand lesser still with respect to theirpresenceandoriginand whatholds them together.
We merely assume water is there to drink and sustain life. We do not know what water is. It is all too well to identify hydrogen and oxygen and the combination of the water molecule but whatishydrogen and whatisoxygen? Where do these come from ? Should we believe in String Theory then everything is reduced to minutely infinite cords that are floating in this universe.
What is their origin or causes? Why should be strings floating in billions of shapes and forms? Who Shapes them? And What keeps them together
in their shapes?
What is the criterion of identification of an object?
Ourselves, subject to illusionary identification and the objects of reasoning remain a complete mystery in nature, composition, control, presence, origin and finality.
The mind-like man himself-, its presence, structure, function, origin and ways of reasoning and imagining remain also a complete mystery.
We attempt a free thinking attitude but not a stream of consciousness but rather a controlled thought limited to the mind-universe relationships natural reactions.
Although the mind may wonder into extremes of absurdities it is left to the onlooker to decide for himself.
Our means of communication is expressed into artificial symbols and at every moment we lack definition of what we are trying to identify.
In our quest for the truth we remain always suspended on the threshold of ignorance.
As long as we stay ignorant of the nature and origin of a thing we cannot transcend to what we assume to know of it, and lesser still of what we believe of it.
The subject of this work is to answer the question:
Why should man believe in God?
The answer might be indefensible, but it is the appeal to the plausibility of the question itself that constitutes our subject.
Is there more evidence for the need of a God to explain the universe than to the contrary?
We are confronted with ourselves in a world that is already there. No one knows who we are, where did we come from, what are we doing here and where are we going?
If we ask one another, why all this? The answer is, as good as a guess.
We are made up of a specific lively matter where it develops into a certain shape and form reaching its mature adult finality. All without any conscious, or unconscious, aid of ourselves. Myriads of systems are instigated into a final product Man.
How come all these systems are born? How come all these systems develop? How do these systems function? And why should these systems develop and function? What makes them develop? And what makes them function? Then what makes them stop?
Is there an outside factor that creates, develops and functions? Or is such a factor, be it nature or God, within ourselves?
What is life and what is death? Why is life and why is death?
What is interesting is that there are more unbelievers in this world than believers. The question is why?
Belief and unbelief denote two distinct tendencies. The first denotes thinking of what may be true subject to non verification. The second, is to think of what might not be true but subject to non verification. The first tendency covers those who think that God is and the second covers those who think that God is not, i.e. spirituality versus secular and metaphysical versus physical. This two-fold tendencies stand in complete opposition regarding the same thing. Where from stems gnosticism and agnosticism, theism and atheism, materialism and metaphysics, mechanism-atomism and finality.
If we believe in atoms as the smallest particle of matter then it follows that every matter is made up of atoms. Whether strings are at the heart of matter construction it remains that there is something that matter is made of.
If an object of matter is the assembly of one type of atoms that forms its constituents, shape and form and its qualities then what brings these atoms together in order to bring about a certain object. The object of observation must exist in order for our minds to sense it. What brings about an object? And how is an object brought about to what it is? What laws control it?
Bringing about an object by creating it then by assembling its atoms together is not the whole story.
It remains to keep its atoms together, and what precisely does that?
If no power, or mechanism that brings about an object to what it is and if there is no control to keep it as it is the object does not exist nor can it remain in its actual form, or what we perceive as its form.
A mountain is made up of atoms homogenous to its product. The question is: what brings the mountain's atoms together and what holds it together?
We know in quantum of the quanta is left alone it disperses. We know in molecule theory that if atoms are left alone they disperse. To have a mountain, a tree, a tiger, water, clouds, there ought to be atoms that makes it and that these atoms must be held together to form what it forms.
Ourselves we are made up of atoms, or strings, what brings our atoms together? If there is nothing that brings our atoms together then we cannot exist. These atoms must not only brought together in a certain form and shape, function and finalities but also must be held together exactly in its place and must function according to its precise functions.
What brings you in your form and shape? What keeps you in this form and shape?
We are assembled when the sperm fecund the ovule and then the body develop into a specific form and shape. This requires your atoms to be brought together to produce the final you.
In order to keep to our human form we have to have our atoms, first created or existing, then put together in its form then, kept as it is.
What precisely does this?
There must be a power that does this:
God.
