Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Human Traits That Point To Being Godly


I look at the facts of the Earth and how they relate to our existence. Everything is perfect: its size, its distance from the Sun, its moon, its oceans, its temperature, its atmosphere, etc. Even genius physicist Stephen Hawking (who has always denied the existence of God) has maintained that it's a "miraculous coincidence" that life on this planet exists - and given the circumstances under which life can exist, he is right. So I ask you to consider this - is this really coincidence? Or design? In my humble opinion, this is much more likely to be design. Who designed it? I have to say that I think God did. Humans are his most precious creations, and there are a few traits humans possess that illustrate this:



Morality

Humans are the only beings in existence that naturally have a feeling of something being right or wrong. However, without an unseen and unknown higher standard, there is no way to explain why we naturally know right from wrong. It is a spiritual feeling deep within our conscience, regardless of your physical circumstances, everyone feels and knows the difference between the two. If there was no God, we would not know a higher standard, and we would not know nor care about right and wrong. We can read all we want about the subject, but that still does not explain why morality is already engrained in our conscience and spiritual makeup. The same is true for all feelings - love and hate, good and evil, joy and pain. This is the precise reason God allows evil to exist. We are allowed free will to abide by our natural moral makeup, yet the bad side of things needs to exist, otherwise we wouldn’t know the opposite. If we didn’t know evil, we wouldn’t know good. If we didn’t know pain, we wouldn’t know joy. If we didn’t know wrong, we wouldn’t know right. This is only fair, because if God manifested himself in an undeniable powerful demonstration, free will would be obsolete and everyone would be forced to follow and believe in God. It would even stifle human advancement and progress concerning intelligence and technology. Free will is a gift, and evil exists only so we can know good. It is easy to blame God for all the suffering and evil we see in the world, but these are nothing more than man’s free will choosing evil over good for, among other things, power and money.


Desire

Why do humans desire things? Think of every desire someone can have, and realize that it is attainable in the world. Sex, money, fame. Then there’s that other desire. The want and need for something more, something higher. It’s the desire of the unknown. The desire for God. If God did not exist, this desire also would not exist. Similar to morality, this desire is engrained in our makeup, and we don’t know why. That desire in the back of our minds is our calling to a higher purpose. In my eyes, it is the calling of God to find our purpose in life beyond earthly desires. Without God existing so we can know what that desire for something more feels like, then we wouldn’t have that desire.