Seeing

 

Seeing that things exist, and things cannot come from true nothingness, there must be something that caused all things visible and invisible. The original and ultimate cause of all things must necessarily be transcendent and self-existent or else there would be an eternal procession of created things causing created things, which is a logical impossibility. This bedrock truth is one of the foundations of philosophy throughout all of human history and was promulgated not only by Judeo-Christianity and the Abrahamic traditions, but also by the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Arabs, and is even acceded to by modern scientific philosophers who posit the existence of an eternal, self existent, all-encompassing dimension that might have given rise to our universe. Acknowledging that this self-existent dimension or entity contains all possible information and energy and is omnipresent, the secular mind still chooses to regard it as unintelligent and unaware, but that is folly. Knowing that God is the greatest conceivable being and that it is greater to exist than not to exist, God must necessarily exist or else He would not be the greatest conceivable being. Thus, the existence of the supreme, self-existent being can be proven through reason and intellect alone. Discerning the impossibility of non-life giving rise to life because of the incomprehensible complexity of living beings, and considering that the universe appears perfectly and improbably tailored for the existence of life, there must necessarily be a super-intelligence that created the universe with the perfect parameters for life who then created incomprehensibly complex life forms. Perceiving the universality of spiritual truths such as love, beauty, and morality and that such things cannot be adequately explained through mere natural mechanisms, there must be a being who Himself is beautiful, moral, and loving. Concluding that all belief systems aside from monotheism, such as atheism, polytheism, and pantheism, disregard these basic, foundational truths of common sense and simple logic, the ultimate truth and purpose of life must be found in believing in and worshiping this transcendent God who created all things and who has chosen to reveal Himself to us through means of reason, creation, and spiritual revelation.