Debate: Does God exist?
Side: yes

Why are we here? What is our Purpose? What is the meaning of life? These questions have been asked for as long as human history. The answer can be found through the answers of a series of other questions. The first question being: why are we seeking to know? Every creature on the earth is content. Every creature, but humans. We are endlessly searching and inquiring into everything we can and cannont see. The human race as a whole and every individual is uncontent, because man is searching for somehting that is not of this world. Athiests, Buddhists, Catholics, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and Protestants all have one thing in common and that is that they are all searching for something greater than themselves. Whether through science or religion, humans seem to have part of themselves that yearn for something more than what seems. What is this component that makes up the human and sets them aside from the rest of creation? It is not the mind or the ability to reason. Though these things help us to better grasp and come to the conclusion of what we are searching for, they are not what make us desire for it. A man of little common sense and the wit of a five year old can have this eagerness to know just as great as or greater than anyone. So too can the great minds of today just as easily ignore it. This thing is not instinctual either. The anilmal is ruled by instinct and can little decide what it does. The human is not, by any means, controlled by instict. Man has a will of his own. This wills, this abiltiy to decide is not the component, but is a direct consequence of it. There have been many names given to it, but the most common today is the word soul. We are separated from all of creation because of our soul. We posses something in us not of this world. The soul cannont be calculated into an elemental composition because it is not material. If not material than what? The soul is spiritual. If we are on earth and have an earthly body where did we receive this soul? This question implies that there is somebeing greater than this world. A being that gave us a soul. Our soul knows this and is eager to be with this Creator. Who is this Creator? This Creator must be greater than us. The pot is never greater than the potter. So we come to a god and man. Creator and creature. If there is one god why can’t there be many? This is not possible because of the structure, rules, and order of this world. There is only one way of things (which we would not have if there was not one God) in this world. Everything conforms to one certain thinking pattern. This conformity can be seen in the animal kingdom, laws of physics, and elemental matter. All these things have a constant way they are supposed to work. Of course one will always ask “Those things are all nice, but they are all, of this world. What about that soul?” Fortuanately, for all monotheistic believers, this order of things can also be found on a spiritual level. Easiest example being the moral standard of things. If a man is to say to another that he should not be doing something there has to be a standard moral system they are both complying to. Where did this standard come from? Why does every human civilization seem to know this basic standard of morals? If a certain person or group of persons made up the standard and just thought it ought to be that way than it would hardly matter to comply with the standard. The thing is that it is a standard and isn’t made by man. If not one man or a group of men made it, than whom? The answer of course being that it was made by one God.