God Exists

Without further ado, my logical, empirical, proof of God: God is the supreme or ultimate reality as the being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe. My argument is that God exists, that is to say that God was and is (though not necessarily that God must always be or always was). "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. " [1] John 1:1. This suggests that God holds a two-fold existence as both a personal self-aware being and a primordial force. As a being, God must have some method of possessing awareness, though as a force God need not – and this I think is the key to understanding ‘God. ' God is a force that was and became ‘aware. ' In other words, God existed before God recognized itself or became aware. We might refer to this state as the godhead, where the godhead is understood to be "the essential and divine nature of God, regarded abstractly. "[2] Or we might refer to it as the Tao, the essential unbiased something that gives rise to all things. [3] Or we might refer to it as the Brahman, the source of creation. [4] The question is, what is this force that is necessarily aware and yet unaware simultaneously that is yet perfect in being and so revered? The Tao says that I can not name it … certainly I am inclined to agree. However, it must follow that it can be identified. If it could not be, the Tao could not mention it. Therefore, there is no paradox in proving God by comparing the Judeo-Christian conception with the Tao if it is identified but ineffable. That, I believe, it is, as I will explain below. Many faiths have held that the spoken word is sacred, carrying with it the divine power to cause ill or to bring about miracles. One must wonder – what is the power of the word? A word is "a sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes. " [5] Therefore, it follows that a word is a method of passing on information. Information is processed, stored, or transmitted data [6] While it may seem strange to use such a technical definition, it rationally follows when one considers that the rules governing the creation of language follow the same rules for information storage in computer science. [7] Thus, it follows that the nascent divinity of God, which has held many names, was the first moment when information was transmitted and this event, the rising of the godhead at the beginning, gave rise ultimately to the capacity of that information to recognize itself. How did it do so? It did so through the formation of life. [8] What is life if not a great big rapid process of information exchange? [9] From the smallest organism to the largest, the one unifying element of all life is that information is exchanged therein. Man is said in many faiths to have been set apart from other life, yet man is many ways no different, materially, than most other forms of life. What separates man from life such that man may claim pride in its form, where as other animals would not conceptualize such pride in the first place? It is simple, really. Man has the ability to store vast amounts of data outside of itself in the form of drawings, writings, and complex structures, thereby extending the information exchange process into non-living material and preserving the effect of such information for future generations. So it might be said that what man recognizes as the godhead formed life, that life formed/is God, and that God formed/is man that God might recognize itself. Of course, life itself is but one of many processes found in nature, and it can be argued that the touch of the sun upon a glass of water informs the water molecules therein to evaporate. This is fine. The godhead would likely better be defined as the necessary first exchange of information for things to be. Life would merely follow as the process by which the grand information exchange informing the motions of the stars and planets recognized itself, within itself. Of course, this means that in one sense, worshipping God is foolish, and yet, setting forth a cause of worship of God is wise. Worshipping God will do nothing for the worshipper that would not be otherwise accomplished without the worship. However, if life is a process of information exchange (on multiple levels) then the question must be asked, what is the end of this process? I couldn't begin to claim to know. However, whatever end it arrives at will likely depend, at least on this planet, a great deal upon humanity. To guide life towards the reverence of a single vision for this process is possibly to suggest one end for it. After all, the promulgation of a faith represents a new ideation within the information process. This is the so-called sacredness of the word – the recognition that words become beliefs, that beliefs inform actions, and that actions alter life, all life, to some degree. God's qualities do not inform faith. Faith informs God's qualities. "Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names" [10] I believe that, as of now, I have provided a definition and description of God suitable to be upheld against adversity. I therefore turn my theory over to my opponent, that he may pit his beliefs in contention with my own. [1] . http://bible.cc... [2] . http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [3] . http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu... [4] . http://www.esamskriti.com... [5] . http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [6] . http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [7] . http://en.wikipedia.org... [8] . http://en.wikipedia.org... [9] . http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com... [10] . http://www.newsweek.com...