Dear Editor,
I find it rather interesting that often times our biggest decisions are made with such little thought and effort. Yet, it is among these fundamental decisions that our path through life is formed.
Take for example the question, “Is there a God?” Either, there is a God, and one must live life accordingly, or there is no God in which case man will not be held accountable beyond this life for their actions.
For those who believe there is no God, many subsequent questions become more complicated and frustrating.
For example, “What is the meaning of life?” This question is explicitly a life-altering question, yet without having formed an assumption on the previous question, this cannot be answered.
If I assume for a moment that there is no God, then I find the question of the meaning of life irritating and frustrating.
My assumption is that many times when people reach the belief that there is no interactive God, they begin to search out other things to preoccupy their longing for something deeper. Work-a-holism, alcohol and drug abuse, girlfriends and boyfriends that become so dependent on each other it is repulsive. For when whatever physical need that you are dependent upon disappears, dies or no longer satisfies, what then can you turn to?
Having put much thought and weighed much of the evidence that I have been exposed to, I have concluded that there is an interactive loving God.
Those who assume that God does not exist will probably attribute my comfort in God as a weakness and that somehow I need this for my self-actualization.
Well … you’re right. I do need this. I need to know that there is a God who listens to my cry. I am glad that I have a God to thank when things are going good, and a God to beg and plead with when things are going bad.
Assuming there is an interactive God also answers many questions. Figuring out my purpose in life now becomes much easier. I need to search out what God has created me to do. I can now have a relationship that I am dependent on; for God is eternal and can be with me for my entire physical life.
I know that people say you must have faith in God. If one has put forth effort and thought into their decision about God, then that person is acting on faith either way. If they don’t believe in a God, then they have faith that there is no God.
I see God’s hand in everything. I am in awe of human beings, such an intelligent creation. Despite our many shortcomings, the strongest evidence that there is a God is found within us.
I do not think less of people who do not believe in God. I wonder though, if it is because they haven’t given it enough thought.
That would be a tragedy.
Ethan Flynn

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