Of all the earthly pleasures which this world has to offer, one thing is absolutely certain – they all come to an end. But in contrast, there is the unending joy of knowing God’s love – a joy which, once found, will be perceived to transcend even the death of our physical bodies.
The opening post of this thread implies that many of the posters on this forum have no wish to search for and discover the joy of knowing God, but instead seem intent on finding reasons not to believe. The content of this thread aptly demonstrates the truth of this opening post, showing the intent of posters not just to find fault, but in many cases to ridicule any arguments put forward for the existence of God by trying to equate such belief with magic, leprechauns, pixies etc.
And in denying the evidence for God and the human soul, they also have to deny their own freedom to make conscious choices. In a Godless, soulless world, every event must have a natural, physical cause which is entirely defined as an unavoidable consequence to all previous events – thus relegating any perception that we have control of our thoughts, words and actions to be an illusion – and everything we do is simply an unavoidable reaction to events. Yet the very act of trying to deny the evidence for our ability to choose is in itself evidence of our ability to make conscious choices. As the opening post implies, it is evident that posters are deliberately choosing to find reasons not to believe rather than to search for God.
But once you concede the possibility of consciously driven interaction with this world, it opens up the amazing realization that there is purpose and meaning in everything:
Was light meant to be seen?
Are the differing wavelengths in light meant to be perceived as colour?
Is gravity meant to keep us on the ground?
And is gravity meant to enable the earth to orbit the sun?
Were vegetables and fruit meant to be eaten?
Were beautiful flowers meant to be perceived?
Was the presence of water, oxygen, carbon etc meant to provide the ingredients for life?
Was the enquiring mind of mankind meant to discover the useful properties of such things as electricity, radio waves, metals, silicon, fossil fuels, etc?
And was this enquiring mind also meant to search for and discover God?
Or was it all just an accidental consequence from the lifeless, aimless, Godless, soulless cloud of exploding gas?
