Friday, May 18, 2012

Are you Christians, Muslims, or even Atheists shocked to hear that Jesus is actually a lesbian woman? Don't be. And after you finish this spiritual journey with me, I think you won't be.

I want to make it clear again that this blog is inspired by Jesus, and is not an attempt to ridicule or mock Judeo-Christian religions. This is a serious and important undertaking I have accepted to bring humanity closer to "God", as the world continues to change with the advance of technology and science.

Our journey starts with two fundamental truths, which in my view, are best described by the Bible. It is not to say that other religions have not discovered these fundamental truths, its just that the Bible provides a simple, easy to understand story with which to impart the knowledge of these truths. The Bible is also the most read book in the world, so this story should already be known by many, and I will not have to tell it again in great detail. I would also like to mention that there are good reasons why the Bible is the most read book in the world and why people should study the Bible, but they are not the reasons most orthodox religious people might think, but I want to save that topic for a later discussion.

Some of you may have already guessed that both my fundamental truths come from the first story of the Bible, the creation story. After all, they are truths from which the rest of the book, and by extension, all the Judeo-Christian religions are built on.

The first truth comes from Eve and her eating the fruit from the forbidden tree. It means that humans are not perfect. Christianity will refer to this as original sin but I feel that that the term destroys the greater meaning of the truth, which is that nothing is perfect in the universe. The implications of this truth are great, but I want to discuss the implications of the second truth first.

The second truth comes from the first thing that happened to Adam and Eve after they've eaten the fruit, which is that they've lost their ability to connect with "God". This connection is not in the literal sense of walking and talking with "God" but rather the sense of understanding "God". Again, there is a much greater meaning in this truth, and that is that some things exist, like "God", that humans simply cannot understand. In fact, the second truth itself is a truth which cannot be completely understood. This second truth occurs all the time in real life.

For example, we have imaginary numbers in mathematics. We use imaginary numbers in various calculations for fields like quantum mechanics or electromagnetism, but can you bring me 3i apples? The point here is that even though we can't possibly comprehend 3i, we can still use this number, and produce relevant and real results. Or take paradoxes like Russell's paradox or Cramer's paradox. Even though these paradoxes exist, they do not undermine the application of mathematics in the real world. From our experience here, the second truth can be encompassed by an even greater truth which is that there are things that we don't understand, but also are not necessary to understand. And this is the truth that most religious people, at least fundamentalists, refuse to admit. There are things that don't have comprehensible answers, and humans just have to learn to accept it.

The question that most often is unnecessarily answered is the question of the origin of the universe. People who follow orthodox religions, often fanatically, will claim that something cannot spring from nothing, so "God" must exist. But claiming "God" exists just leads to another question of "who created God", another something from nothing contradiction. At this point, the people who follow orthodox religions claim that "God" exists outside of space and time, and that humans can't possibly understand such a concept. But this truth could have been invoked earlier and produced exactly the same answer-- that humans do not understand the origin of the universe, whether "God" was responsible for it or not. Though we can conclude  "God"'s existence is neither relevant nor necessary, we must admit the grounds of relevance and necessity does not disprove the existence of "God".

Instead, if we come to realize that there might be no answer to the origin of the universe, and furthermore, that it is not necessary to provide one, then we realize that when asked the question, "does God exist" there is only one answer. "I don't know, but it doesn't matter".



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