Thursday 3 November 2011

The GOD Dilemma



For starters this is an article written by me sometime back in 2008 for my college magazine, hope you like it. J
God, is there a God? Who is this God? Is He real or just an excuse to hide our explanatory weakness, to explain certain events, feelings, phenomena? Many times the feeling of despair and hopelessness thrusts such questions in our minds. But no matter how hard we try , acceptable answers to these questions are never found, for the believers continue to believe Him & those who oppose His existence will continue to do so. Here, in this article, I try to find out ‘my’ answer to this question.
In my quest for the answer, I asked myself-What/Who   according to me is God? From the various ideas, from books/television/newspapers, which have influenced my mind, I regard Him as a ‘positive energy’ of such magnitude & influence that it not only inspires us but also helps us to realize our true capabilities. Religious books are proclaimed to be His words/ideas   & in our daily lives, we are expected to implement these teachings. Obviously, these scriptures have a large number of believers, which itself depicts the influence of a ‘SUPER-BEING’.
Another   thought   that came to me was about our very existence! The fact that we occupy the ideal place in our planetary system , the values of certain quantities (like the sp. Heat capacity of water, latent heat of ice) , durations of day & nights etc.  are ideal for our sustainability. Don’t you think this to be too much of a coincidence? It appears as if ‘Someone’ has chosen these values for us! Further occurrences of miracles, premonitions, prayers being answered etc. reinforce His presence. 
Even as I was pondering over the various points enforcing His presence, I started feeling dissatisfied with them, as for every argument, automatically; a more rational explanation sprang up! All religious scriptures were written by ‘man’, we  just believe that they are the teachings of ‘God’. As a matter of fact, the Bible was written in a time period of 1400-1800 years by over 40 people!! This fact greatly changes things, isn’t it? Further there is a possibility that all these ‘teachings’ & the ‘concept’ of God was a way to inspire people to do the right and follow certain norms of life. As people, generally, more easily believe the mysterious rather than the logical, the various religious groups  could have aimed to use this characteristic of human nature to reform the society by making them blindly accept the good principles just to avoid getting into the ‘bad books’ of  the so called God! Similarly, the argument about our ‘too perfect’ position and surroundings can be easily explained by changing our point of view i.e. these things aren’t perfect it’s just that we have ‘evolved’ in accordance with these attributes.
Today, man has been able to develop techniques like tissue culture/cloning which have given him the power which once only God possessed , the power to create organisms-‘Creation Of Life’! Furthermore until the occurrence of eclipses was not scientifically explained, people linked them with mythologies like ‘Rahu’ & ‘Ketu’ etc. Does that mean that the phenomena which we are unable to explain today (referred to as miracles or supernatural happenings) can be rationally explained in the coming years? If this is true then this is a big argument against the existence of God!!!
Eventually, to answer this question we need to understand the ‘faith’ & ‘belief’ of people.  We need to know that an event can be regarded as just a coincidence or mere luck from one point of view while it can be regarded as a miracle from a believer’s point of view. Thus God will continue to exist for His followers and He will continued to be regarded as an excuse by the non-believers. As for me, I just found out one thing-I love my God but don’t blindly accept anything propagated in his name.

2 comments:

  1. arre ye to dekha dekha hai... ispe to humne gd bhi kiya tha... badhiya hai... sahi blog shuru kiye ho... lage rahe...

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