2007-08-24 04:58:30 · 14 answers · asked by ifhusain 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Sure, but there are those who believe in Him and ask for His help, so maybe they are the silent assistants whispering to God when it seems like all hope is lost. The world hasn't ended yet, so prayer must be working, perhaps?
2007-08-24 09:13:31 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here's a twist:
If God planed everything from the start, wouldn't He had been helping us all along? If so, should it be phrased as 'will mankind continue to live in 'ignorance' of God's help?'
Just a thought.
2007-08-24 12:16:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask, and yea shall receive an answer.
[ Probably - Possibly already has been. But, more importantly, quite how well mankind does so...! Ah, therein lies the rub, squire. ]
Is it possible that God is actually some sort of Cosmic Estate Agent and we are here on just a short lease anyway?
Sash.
2007-08-24 12:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We could live without God, but we cannot live without ourselves, and the best of ourselves that we can find is God.
Even the most secular and philosophical minded cannot but realise that there is an innate need to find truth in every fact we encounter, to find single thread of truth connecting every thing as everything. But in our search, we find contradictions, contrasts, things good and things bad. We think and ask, is there some sense in all this? But we see that lightening is not an essentially bad thing, not a thing to be afraid of, but merely a phenomenon to be understood as part of our understanding of the processes that bring clouds and rain fall. Therefore, when we look closely, we know things better; we see that all things are connected into one system, and systems into environments and environments into our world at large.
We endlessly need to know all that we know better. We need to know things the way they have never been known before. There is no limit in the mind how it can take us, and how better we can get in our understanding of ourselves, and things around us. Soon as we find something fantastic, we long to see even better. And in this sense, the ultimate capacity of our mind might in fact be unlimited; our search through knowledge might never end, as the truth might be eternal. The concept of God therefore in religious and also in philosophical sense the recognition of the ultimate in our own mind.
We could say that God does not exist, but this does not take away the capacity of our mind to experience one. There is no science or a discipline, for the mind that would explain in comprehensive form questions: what is the meaning of this life; why we are here; where do we come from; and where are we heading? There are things that we know and then there are things that we don't; there are perhaps things that we might never know. But concept of God, as the greatest, single and all unifying principle, sums it all up for us; it encapsulate all that is there and that could ever be.
However, we may be better off without an ill-conceived concept of God, where God is understood as if He were yet another person, only too great in stature and too mighty in its powers. The fact is that there is no such physical separation as such, it is all highly idealised, and the very stuff that makes up our mind and everything see.
In true sense, the concept to God is the greatest of all concepts, and in its meanings it is the paradox of all paradoxes: we seek God to find ourselves, or if we find ourselves truly, we find God. And this in my understanding is the very purpose of human life, the purpose of all human efforts for development, a purpose so innate and essential to the mind that we often lose sight of that just the way sometimes people forget that they are wearing on their face the glasses they think have gone missing. It is the lost purpose of human race that we only partially realise in the glimpses of materialistic shine and lustre.
2007-08-24 12:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God lives IN mankind - if man is on earth, so is God
2007-08-24 12:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by Precious Taboo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mankind seem to have done fine so far without his help
2007-08-24 14:12:35 · answer #6 · answered by soraya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is such a god, I don't think mankind are doing a very good job even with his help.
2007-08-24 12:04:28 · answer #7 · answered by dnbgrrly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but it seems that atheists can live quite easily without God. Each to their own I say.
2007-08-24 12:04:12 · answer #8 · answered by Nexus6 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I saw that movie. It was called the Matrix. All of our illusion are helped along by drugs and computers until they are very real. Frontal lobotomies can also help.
2007-08-24 12:30:31 · answer #9 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is always with us.
He makes our souls, and we can't live without Him.
Good luck and may God bless you.
2007-08-24 12:24:22 · answer #10 · answered by kathleen m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋