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Originally posted by adnan
Who creates the GOD?
[Edited on 2/24/2004 by adnan]
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Adnan, your aren't the first person to ask this question. This is a very common question in all sort of religious debate. One of the prime arguments that the atheist use (not that I am saying you are atheist).
I am short on time now, I will try to answer it as short as possible:
1. Human Existence:
How do you know you exist at all? Is it because you can see/smell/touch/hear/taste the world around you? The fact is we can never be 100% sure of our existence. We exist/or not exist in a void of nothingness. The world around us is a result of our senses. We can never validate the existence of any matter in this world. Because there is no 3rd party viewer, neither can you come out of your shell and be above of your senses. You are nothing but the slave of your senses. Please consider the "Matrix" situation
2. Does matter exist?
Existence of matter is also driven by our senses. Because we can see a table and touch it, doesn't mean it exists. You can see and touch a table in your dream but that table doesn't exist. Just because you are awake now and you are using your "real" senses (not the dream senses) doesn't give any validity to the claim that the table exist. Matter's existence is as much an illusion as your dream is.
3. Where is the space and time?
The notion of space and time is also an illusion, guided by our senses and our living life. We believe everything grows old as the time passes. And the tide of time is continuous. Like matter space and time is also illusion created in our mind. Your walking around the room in 3 dimensions does not prove that space exist, because your perception of walking is driven by your senses and we already established you cannot prove the perceptions of your senses. Similarly time is an imaginary concept that relates us to this world of illusion.
4. Who is GOD?
GOD is the One Who initiates/repeats this illusion for those who are alive in this world. The purpose for this illusion as described in 3 major religion is the test. When He does not repeat the illusion of sensory perception to you, you die in this world. You become free of the sensory illusion.
5. Who created GOD?
Our knowledge and our existence is bound by the laws and rules set forth by our Creator. We cannot come out of that because then we would have to die and get out of this sensory illusion. Due to this restriction you cannot find the answer to who created GOD. You can never have required information to ask this question. In this sensory illusion only thing possible for you to do is either:
a) decide that there is GOD who initiates/repeats this world of illusion
OR
b) decide that there is no GOD and existence of matter is absolute where the world is governed by itself
Thus, it becomes a rhetorical question to ask who created GOD. There are many other similar question, eg: Can God create a stone that He cannot lift?
Thus, before you ask a question you must remember the rules that you are bound to.
Hopefully this clarified some of the issues.
Nasif