In the name of God
The Source of our Existence
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I think through simple reasoning I have solved some of the confusions about our spiritual beliefs. The following statements summarize the essence of my argument.
Without resorting to the supernatural phenomena we can rationally conclude the existence of a Designer for this Universe.
Free and Random evolution of the Original Energy which evolved to our Universe of energy and particles should produce a formless, disorder, and chaotic structure. But, our extremely Fine Tuned Universe which possesses enormous favorable properties; from the structure of the five energy fields, to the values of the Universal Constants, to the structures of the sub-atomic particles, to the structures of the atoms, and the subsequent molecules, they all have to have enormous favorable properties which are essential for the development of life on this tranquil planet in the midst of all brutal life threatening forces. Also, the Earth's many favorable properties from its protective atmosphere, to its protective magnetic shield, to its internal heat engine, to the formation of the Earth's raw material, to its mild temperature, they all had to be in sink in order our specie to flourish. Also the timing of our specie in the evolution of the life itself have played enormous role for the success of our intelligence. It is hard to digest that all these Extremely Precise factors had come together just with the random and mindless transformation of the Original Formless Energy. Our extremely Fine Tuned Universe which possesses enormous favorable properties to produce our intelligence, does point to the existence of a Designer for the structure of this Universe. In this view the Life Evolution itself is part of that Grand Design of Creation, and this acknowledgment enormously enhances our perceptions of the glories of the Creation.
Believing in Creator should not bind us to accept the Holy Books as DIRECT words from the Creator. If words of God are here to enlighten us, then they should do so, without any AMBIGUITY! Rather than their own elevated status being the source of so much hatred and disputes.
From the verses of the Bible we can clearly prove that Moses Story is a FICTION.
From the verses of the Bible we can easily prove that Jesus� Divinity is a HOAX.
Prophet Mohammed LIED, when he claimed verses of the Holy Koran were dictated to him by Angle Gabriel. It is so pathetic to claim the hodgepodge verses of the Holy Koran came from Mighty God. It is so sad in this Age of Reasons and Enlightenment still some educated Muslims are praising the primitive verses of Koran as the Ultimate Literature. The Holy Koran repeats the same Bible Stories, but in a chaotic and repetitious manner. Then, we have to conclude since the stories in Holy Koran are so chaotic and disorderly then the God who gave us the Holy Torah, and then the Holy Bible, by the time he revealed the Holy Koran to Prophet Mohammed he had lost his marvels!
The same way that our scientists freed the science from the misconceptions of the past, we need to correct the content of our Holy Books. Our brilliant brains are our Gift from God, and we are obligated to use our brain to its fullest potential. And whoever denies us the "Freedom of Thoughts" they are only FALSE prophets.
Our spiritual growth is only possible, when we use the full power of our brains to explore the structure of this Universe, and from that we sense the presence of the Creator, and that might enable us to grasp something about the purpose of our existence.
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Man realized his superiority over all the other animals was because of his magnificent brain power. Man's superb brain has giving him the capability to talk, to think, and to reason with an amazing clarity. Monotheism in recognition of this great superiority devised a special Theology to celebrate and to glorify Man's unique status above all the other animals. It is ironic the same Theology which was devised to glorify Man's great thinking power it has turned around and has deprived him from Free Thoughts!!!
Our brain is the prized accomplishment of the Creation. We can not act dumb and helpless and expect God to tell us about the purpose of our lives. People who acknowledge God, then they should acknowledge the most magnificent gift of God's blessings; our brain, and this gift obligates us to use our brain to its fullest potential. Failing to do so, is simply not an option. God has empowered us with this incredible analytical power, and it seems we need to use all that power to grasp this glorious Universe. Our deep knowledge of this Universe will be the starting point to grasp a sense of the magnificent glory of its Creator. After all, God has trusted us with this superb illuminating power. Aren't we really on the wrong track for handcuffing our enormous intelligence?
In the past, in our effort to understand the glory of God, we have made some horrible mistakes. Isn't this about time to acknowledge those mistakes? Because Faulty Religious Myths can not take us far!
A Man-Like image of God is an insult to our intelligence. Didn't we mock the idols for being too stupid!? Since the Man-Like image of God is totally wrong, then all the reported dreams and the encounters which reflects Man-Like image for God are all men's hallucinations. However, in some of those stories we sense some genuine supernatural phenomena which require further studies. Sometimes the facts defy our logic; these are our paradoxes which we need to reconcile with them. Since in the final analysis, our collective intelligence is the only Reliable Measure which could guide us to the Truth, then, none of those supernatural phenomena should ever over-ride our collective intelligence. Even our Mysticism has to be digested and be comprehended by our brains.
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With this material I try to explore a new vision for God's Image which would be in harmony with our enlightened vision of the Universe. I offer few plausible proofs that the Holy Books are expressing only the wisdom of our ancestors about the Creator and about Man's social conducts. The content of the Holy Books were acquired by the inspiration of the Human's inquisitive mind. Human's inspirations are very complex phenomena which sometimes may be interpreted as revelations from God.
To me the evidence of God's existence is all around us and it is self evidenced; the nature is showing us this Beautiful, Complex, and Extremely Favorable Harmony which is the cause of our existence, we only need to open up our eyes and Sense the Connection between the Design and the Designer. This Beautiful and Perfect Harmonious Design has overwhelmed our mind to the point that gives lots of scholars hard time to pass beyond the immediate experiences of a perfect integrated system. If the Design was not so Perfect then we could easily see the Designer's role which has made this Harmony possible.
Human as a unit of intelligence in all cultures has sensed the presence of some mysterious forces which has been influencing their lives. This mysterious Notion has been the centerpiece of most mythologies in almost all cultures no matter how primitive they might have been. It seems Human is hard wired in this process. Human has devised many mythologies to express and to deal with those findings. Science has hard time to format, formulate, and handle this Raw Notion which has been expressed in various forms. Of course our logic already has summarized all these Mythologies and has concluded that their foundations are based on believing the existence of a powerful supernatural being. All scholars do agree that Universe has extremely complex integrated structure, but lots of them can not accept a Designer for its origin. And the debates goes on! These debates are healthy for strengthening our mental capacity.
The Believers do acknowledge the presence of God in their lives. Believing in God should not bind us in accepting those faulty ancient Religious Myths which the Holy Books are presenting. There are a lot of wisdom in the Holy Books, but it is wrong to assume God was directly the author of those books. Unfortunately, our great established religions have based their theologies on those ancient Religious Myths, and they mistakenly have assumed those Religious Myths as Facts. There are major flaws in our Holy Books. Fundamentally, we are fooling ourselves basing our Faith on those faulty Religious Myths. Faulty Religious Myths can not take us far.This is a big sin to associate so much stupidity and ignorance to Mighty God. God is Greater than that to make those stupid Mistakes.
I wonder what happened to those prophecies; that the Bear from the North would invade the state of Israel, and that would trigger the Battle of Armageddon!? Well, those Prophecy Makers are busy to make new prophecies! How absent minded we could get to fall again and again for those lunatic ideologies?
In ancient time Jews were bold enough to explore new aspects of the Deity and author new books based on their new enlightenment and add those volumes to the scripture. But it seems Abrahamic faith have lost that inquisitive processes and they have been frozen with some outdated scriptures, even when we have clear indications that some of those verses are absolutely Wrong.
The interpretation of the Holy Torah differs drastically from Rabbi Meir Kahane to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The interpretation of the Holy Bible differs drastically from Jerry Falwell to Pope John Paul II. The interpretation of the Holy Koran differs drastically from Bin Laden to Ayatollah Sistani. Even though each of these leaders would easily justify their own ideologies with some verses from the Holy Books. What kind of intelligence we possess to allow these kinds of the interpretations to control our ideology and push us toward some extreme undesirable actions against our common interests. These interpretations clearly shows fundamentally how flawed these scriptures are. We can not have a closed eye on these issues and pretend that they do not exist. These issues are affecting and dominating the foundation of all of our political and social activities. We have to resolve these issues amicably in order to have a clear path for our growth, both physically and spiritually.
The Eternal Truth has to be unchangeable. Even though our understanding of the Eternal Truth is very subjective; but the Instruction from the Eternal Truth for our humanity has to be Universal and without any Prejudice. This requires us to form a new Myth which would be in harmony with our present knowledge of our environment and the human's behaviors. The Holy Books are only representing Man's wisdom throughout the ages. Man acquired those wisdom through various experiences including some revelations from God. Since our behaviors are the manifestation of the Angels and the Devils who are residing within each one of us, then the Holy Books have tried to create some Guidelines for our conducts and our behaviors. God does not need our worship, it is us who need God's help in relieving and understanding the struggles of our lives.
Our knowledge about the Nature and the Human's Behaviors has improved drastically. We no longer consider diseases as punishment from God, rather than natural phenomena which they are part of our environment and our growth and development have depended on them. The new knowledge has empowered us to have far better understanding of the nature and as a result, this has empowered us to grasp a much better and far more brighter vision for the glory of God. God is far more elegant than those childish descriptions of God in the Holy Books. We need to free our religions from faulty ancient Religious Myths. Those faulty and primitive Religious Myths are hampering the meanings of our own profound experiences of God. We should not be afraid to edit the content of the Holy Books. Actually our acquired knowledge is demanding us to upgrade the content of the Holy Books. That is our solemn duty. Without that we are denying ourselves to grasp the glory of our Creator based on our extended knowledge of Universe.
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For long, long time in many civilizations the medicine men thought magical health properties for mercury. Those medicine men prescribed mercury for various diseases. Lately in our modern medicine we have discovered how poisonous mercury is. Those prescriptions which the ancient medicine men were prescribing for their patients not only it did not cure their disease, it rather destroyed them! The disease were real, and the patients really needed a cure, but mercury was a wrong treatment. We have similar scenario for the image of God which our major religions are offering us. After all, what kind of God is he, who failed his wrestling match with Jacob!? Is he the same powerful Creator who created this Universe!? How Gullible can we get!?
It took 350 years for the Christian Church to acknowledge that Galileo was right and the Church was wrong. Again, similar episode is underway regarding the Darwinian Theory of Evolution!
Fundamentally it is so divisive and troublesome that each of these religious groups think, that their Theologies are the only window to the Truth! How could these Theologies guide us to any Truth when these theologies themselves are the source of so much divisions, hostilities, and hatred in our societies? Our humanity has suffered a great deal because of their Rigid Belief Systems.
Our Creator has been much kinder to us than the image of the Creator which all these Theologies are offering us. Our magnificent brains are the solid evidences of this Fact.
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Good and Bad, Angels and Devils
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The following links are some discussions that I had in few forums.
Gods, Heroes, and Myth Forum / Other Mythologies / Faulty Religious Myths can not take us far
Religious Education / Abrahamic Religions / Jesus Body
Religious Education / Abrahamic Religions / How far is Heaven?
Religious Education / Abrahamic Religions / Does Jesus have any limitation?
Religious Education / Abrahamic Religions / George Orwell 1984 Big Brother
Cygnus' Study - "Evolution/Creation" Evolution is part of the Creation
Cygnus' Study - SteveG's Politics Forum / Iraq war and Sen. John Kerry
Cygnus' Study - SteveG's Politics Forum / Has America lost her way?
Cygnus' Study - SteveG's Politics Forum / an honest broker?
Religious Education / Everything But the Kitchen Sink / Political Debates / an honest broker?
Backpage.com Forums / Religion & Philosophy / Civility
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