Me and My Thoughts

[Rayaan]

Would i be wrong in guessing you like Cricket?

Yeah, that's wrong. I don't like Cricket too much but I don't dislike it either. But I know that my father definitely loves cricket. It's a nice game actually.

Let me pose a question, why do you believe in a God?

Oh, that's quite a big question lol. But thanks for asking.
I'll answer that in a separate topic which I'm going to make sometime later. I have to gather my thoughts together first (but know that I'm a little bit slow).

What is actually harder for me to understand is the question of *what* is God instead of *if* there is a God. Sometimes I get conflicting and strange ideas of what He could be, but I don't really understand Him, and I think it's impossible to understand Him. Why? Because I think that He is something so great that it is beyond our comprehension. For example, sometimes I think that God is like an Information Field somewhere in the highest dimension of the universe; or that He is a great, powerful Mind without having any physical properties; or that He is a being of pure, vibrating energy; or maybe He's some kind of an abstract self-referential system which is controlling everything in the universe. I also think of the metaphor that the universe might be a giant cosmological computer (as some philosophers today believe), and that God might be the "Programmer" of this universe, or maybe even the program itself.

But the point is that these are all pretty vague and questionable ideas. We can't really know the nature of God but still we are told to believe in Him. I think that could be one of the reasons why some people don't believe in a God, which is that they don't understand Him. They don't understand what is His relationship to the universe and everything else.

You mean the more you realized we can explain things without any need for God the more you believed in him? That is bizarre

Yeah, I know it's a bizarre thing to some people but not for me.

I don't think that being able to explain things without the need for a Creator automatically means that He doesn't play any role in the universe nor that He doesn't exist. I mean, that's really the whole point of science, which is to explain the everyday things that we see around us without invoking a God. For example, a scientist might be able to explain how the planets go around the sun by using the laws gravity, motion, the curvature of space, etc. But, he doesn't know where all the laws of the universe came from in the first place, does he? Nobody knows that. So, I think this the place where a Law Maker, or a God/Allah/Creator or whatever you want to call it, is needed.



To everyone else:

Thank you for the welcome.
I had a smile on my face when I was reading your comments. I'm happy to see nice, open-minded people like you guys.

I'll try to contribute something every now and then.