If God Did Not Exist

Or even worse, if God were evil...

…then every sunrise,

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every blooming flower,

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every wave that gently sweeps to shore

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is a lie, a diversion set up to hide a sinister intent. In fact, all the good thoughts we think and good feeling we feel also must be lies, or at least meaningless, because they are no longer tied to any deeper good.

The argument is usually that God cannot exist or is not all powerful and all good because there is pain, heartache, death and pure evil in the world.

This is certainly a problem and its explanation is not simple, otherwise the Bible would be a poem or a pamphlet.

But this argument against God’s goodness or existence can only exist, if there is an underlying implied agreement that there is something in this world that is both true and good.

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In other words, discussions of the existence of evil and the problem of pain, do not remove God’s power, goodness or existence even though they most certainly deserve an explanation – one that fits our own human limitations.

In other words again, we will never know the complete truth in this area or any other aspect of life simply because our minds are limited – sometimes to the point of concluding that our limited thinking is as good as thinking can get. There is no being in existence who could possibly have a mind any better than ours even though every day we have the opportunity to see a sunrise,

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a blooming flower

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or a gentle wave lapping the shore.

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Sure, we can write all this off as an illusion, which is consistent with our human nature, because it is easier to believe in random chance than it is to believe we are not the center even of our own lives.

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