Of God(Part IV)

[jars of clay]

When I first wrote "Of God" I said that man has a hole or emptiness inside of him that causes both unrest and despair. Man has an emptiness that keep him from bring content, and drives him to focus his life around some object, be it alive or not alive. Man will, if you will allow me to say, worship something through his devotion and obsession to that something. Today we continue our discussion of God by looking once more to the empty hole that exists in every mortal who has ever existed.

All life must be moving from one place to another. The scientific word has accurately said that for something to be alive it must be able to adapt to its surroundings. For humans to truly be alive we must have a driving force that strengthens and motivates us. Without this we feel worthless and unneeded, and feel like it would be better if we died now and ended life altogether.

As much as we might deny it or reject it,all humans worship a god. When we are young we worship those who have taken care of us, we depend on them, we wish to please them to the best of our ability, when we do something to upset them we feel a sense of guilt and try to Dodo better. As time goes on however we begin to draw away from our parents and instead we obsess over something else, maybe friends, or work, regardless of what it is we will knowingly or not try and draw our happiness from this 'god' and will try and fill this void inside of us with whatever god we have set up.

Now you might pull me off my soap box and tell me that you are an atheist and do not worship anything as you do not believe a god exists. My response to this is that first, you cannot deny something that is wired into your very nature, and secondly it is not that you do not believe a god exists, because you do (if you will pardon my forwardness), not only do you believe he exists, you believe that god is yourself, and you are quite offended when you are not treated as such.

I have already spoken to some detail on the first of my reasons so I will only repeat that if we do not have a drive, a motivation, something that we worship , then we are left with no reason to be alive.

What of my saying that we really think that we are god? If you would join with me in thinking without bias you will agree with me. We all wish to play god, we all demand to be treated as if the world revolved around us. From the moment we are born we demand the focus, care, and attention of the world, quickly do we discover that our desires are not those of the world, and we scream out our frustration. Well, you will answer, I have matured sense then. Have you now? When have you ever been content? When has what you had ever been enough?

The hole still remains to be filled with some kind of god, the question now is what kind of god does it point to? I would like to suggest the god it points to is a god who is more. For this god to be real he must be able to fill the hole that exists inside of us. And as anyone can attest the things of this physical world can never fill that empty hole. The conclusion from this is that god must be perfect. For this being to be god he must be able to do what nothing else in this flawed world can do, and to be able to do that, god must be perfect. Anything short of this and eventually this force will lose its appeal.

I will continue to bore you later, for now consider what conclusions can be drawn from god being perfect.