I respect suffering members' need to rant due to our suffering. But I hope we don't use this forum and this thread to bash God nor His believers who find support and comfort in their trials with their faith in God. I hope there is consideration for others of faith that we won't abuse our rights of self expression without consideration for others' feeling by bashing the deity with vulgarity nor profanity even if it is so tempting to do so in our anger and frustration.
Saying that, I respect people's choice to believe in the existence of God and a superior intelligence or not. I mean, if the Democrats and the Republicans in the State, or the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada can't agree on a single issue as intelligent and grown men/women, what chance is there to agree on religion and God. LOL.
Faith is a personal thing. You have to live it to know and to experience the love of God. I am someone who had lost my only son who bled to death in my arm in a tragic accident. I suffered untold grief for it. But I don't blame the loving God a bit and He had given me comfort in incredible miracles to reassure me my son's continued existence in a glorified state in the realm beyond. I can't deny these sacred experiences as much as I can't deny the sun rises from the east. God has never promised a smooth, painless, struggle-less, illness-free life for us. He didn't even promise this for Jesus, His only begotten son, nor his followers in the ages of old. They got persecuted, stoned, beheaded, even crucified. They suffered illnesses like the case of Job. So why should I a mere mortal expect any special treatment. But to each its own.
I believe a superior intelligence of the Universe exists. There is evidence of that intelligence and there are so many laws governing this universe, nature, and even in our human body. Take the ear and hearing. Sound travels in waves, which vibrate the ear drum, and then transmit that vibration through the inner ear through conduction of bones using some principle of Hydraulics, then the inner hair cells vibrate based on the frequency of the sound waves using the principle of Resonance in physics. Then through a series of electro-chemical processes the signals are transmitted in the brain for interpretation. That process is too deep to even cover here involving too many laws of physics and chemistry or whatever. Well, do you expect the DNA & basic cell materials to have the intelligence to understand that sound travels in waves and the law of physics as above mentioned? Isn't that even more unbelievable too?
Take the eyes, to have clear vision the DNA in cells again need to know light travels in waves. To see clearly, light waves and photons needed to be converged to a single focus for sharpness. This process is using a law of physics in light called Refraction. When light passes through a curve convex surface, it can be bent and converged to a focus for sharp images. So some basic cells have to understand that to build a soft gel structure, our natural eye lens to do this job. Again the process where those receptor cells convert the light to electro-chemical signals to go through the nerve fibers and neurons are just too complicated to talk about here. To expect the DNA in cells to understand all these to achieve clear vision is probably more improbable than winning a lottery.
These are just some of the most basic of bodily functions which require very complex understanding of physical laws and chemistry. We are not even talking about the much more complex laws involved in the embryo and birth process, not to say the thinking or intellectual processes in our brain. I simply don't think millions of years of evolution from the some protein molecules or basic cells can come up with all the wonders of nature and the universe. I mean do these basic cells made up of quartz, protons, electrons & neurons really have more intelligence than our brain to come up with this grand scheme of intelligence? I mean with all the seeming intelligence of men and their accumulated knowledge and powerful or precision machines such as this computer, we are far from achieving anything these basic cells can do. Think even deeper, if you were one of those basic cells, how on earth you and your tiny bit of existence made up of protons, neutrons, and wildly spinning/vibrating electrons or their sub-atomic particles such as quarks can have the intelligence to understand that light and sound are made up of different kinds of waves, and that they have to understand all the physical and electro-chemical laws to make them work in unison so we have hearing and vision?
I have to concede that there is simply something beyond human ability and beyond human comprehension. Even Einstein himself didn't rule out God, nor Newton. If super bright minds like them and modern scientists can't crack the code of the Grand Unified Theory, a theory of everything, then with my little brain of limited understanding I likewise can't rule out a superior intelligence out there. But to each their own. After all, faith is to be lived to feel its reality. That is one thing people can't understand by mere logics and by the limited knowledge we humans have amassed.
Is there life beyond the grave? I hope so. I have a son who I want to see again in the next life. No one knows for sure of course. But there are hundreds of videos on youtube of those who have gone beyond and back due to near-death experiences and tell us their vivid stories of the life beyond and many bear striking similarities. Can they all be wrong? I have 3 persons I know who have told me their near-death experiences just like those youtube videos and they don't sound like they are lying. But I respect those who don't want anything to do with continued existence. My humble 2 cents.
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