Why do I believe in God? (Part 2 of X)

Having talked in Part 1 about my views on implications of quantity on simplicity and complexity, I will now concentrate on the concept of existence in general. Normally, people can’t imagine God as just another tangible entity. We all do have our own representations of Him based on widely accepted social perceptions, religious interpretations, personal imaginings etc. With doubt in His existence come agnosticism and atheism. But how can one be sure that He exists? Should one base beliefs on sacred texts? Or legends? Science maybe?

Then again how do you know if you exist or not? Is it because you believe you are awake? Reality is a very intriguing concept, sort of a pre-requisite for existence and vice versa (i.e., reality has to exist as well). But, as all other concepts it can easily be treated as an entity. As such it is subject to creation. Based on our sense of logic creation is a process employed by an entity (generally called Creator) to generate other entities. Yet, Creator as every other entity would logically be a subject to creation as well. It all has to start somewhere, doesn’t it? But, there is a viable alternative to the alpha-omega concept. Infinity imposes no barriers and implicitly allows us to assume that start and end are purely arbitrary concepts designed for simplicity and abstraction. And yet, if they coexist with infinity as they actually do in this universe, it is because somewhere in the beginning of the Universe, Creator made a selection of entities that will assume infinity as their base concept and separated them from the rest of entities that conformed to alpha-omega concept. In layman’s terms, a carrot has beginning and the end. Universe doesn’t. The analogy seems to apply to humans and our perceptional power. Maybe we just weren’t meant to understand the Universe because we were in the same basket with carrots in the first place. We must be cognitively over-simplified to not even be able to understand the fundamentals of our existence only because we have substantially different meta-heritage when compared to Universe.

If we break it down to the chair you are sitting on right now, reading this confusing post, we can see that if you were to remove that chair and duck waiting for another one to replace it without your action you would end up having serious problems walking tomorrow. Creation is fundamental to bringing entities into existence. And Creator is substantial to performing creation. What comes before the Creator? He existed always — that’s what sacred texts are saying. Reason is thus limited by our mental design in the first place. We have no mental tools to discover concepts behind creation and Creator. That’s where faith comes into play.

I will end here for today and would more than like to see your comments coming in. Feel free to express your disagreements, alternative views and whatever you feel you need to say on this. I would definitely benefit from it.