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1 if there is a God, who created God?
he answer to this question is in what the French
Tphilosopher Rene Descartes had said, ‘I think, therefore
I am.’ To prove God’s existence, I extend this logic to say,
‘If I am, therefore, God is.’ This is because a human being
is like a mini-god, one who possesses all divine qualities
in a smaller magnitude. If a mini-god’s existence is
possible, the Almighty God’s existence is possible too.
The choice before us is not between ‘a universe with God’
and ‘a universe without God’, the real choice instead is
between ‘a universe with God’ and ‘no universe at all’.
The rationale is that when there is no option for you, the
available option becomes the only choice.
Creation cannot be traced back endlessly. At some point,
we will have to agree that there is someone who has
brought creation into existence. If we do not accept this,
the phenomenon of creation would be rendered endless
and hence non-workable. Somewhere, we will have to
put a full-stop, and agree that there is one all-powerful
Creator.
2 Why does God not send His angels to
stop evil in this world?
his question hinges on a fundamental issue in which
T‘problem’ is termed as ‘evil’. In reality, evil has no
existence in this world. It is only problems that exist and
a ‘problem’ is another name for a ‘challenge’. God has
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