The only idea man can affix to God is first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for man to consider what first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it from the ten fold difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space will have no end, but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of time, but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there will be no time
In like manner of reasoning, every thing we behold carries internal evidence that it did not make itself. Every man is evidence to himself that he did not make himself. It is this evidence that carries us on to the belief of a first cause eternally existing, and by the power of which, all things exist., and this first cause, man calls God.
Author Thomas Paine
AGE OF REASONING
Reject all formal religions if you must (I have), but reconsider the ultimate power of God.
2007-01-11
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