Is A Personal(*) God Improbable? Or is it we who are improbable?Atheism has traditionally scoffed at belief in a God who is Personal or SupraPersonal. I’ve always found their position to be a counterintuitive curiosity. One of the reasons why is that I find myself, a personal being, to exist. I am here. You are here. And this existence never ceases to be a shock when I consider the statistical improbability of any of us (or any thing) existing at all.
Consider: I, a personal being who has no reason in myself for existing at all, can look into the eyes of other people, other personal beings who also inexplicably exist. I can deeply commune with people I love… How can that not be seriously and forever astonishing, a shock to awakened persons, unless the routines of cultural existence and a devil’s advocate style “education” have talked us out of it, dulled us into forgetfulness of that primal shock? If I am a personal being and find myself mysteriously here, why should our expectations for a statistically improbable universe not find its Origins in the profoundly Personal? Jesus shows us.
Nowhere Man
Consider Materialism. Whatever his origin, if man is inexplicable, presently and constantly “evolving” in a godless universe of floating rocks, then it follows that his thinking, and especially his philosophical views, cannot be worth much ultimately; his thoughts would be inherently unstable, unguided and random, merely emerging fragments in process or mutation, on route to nowhere. / SH
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(*) as opposed to an impersonal “Ultimate Concern” (Tillich), mere “Ground of being” (Heidegger) or any Teilhardian neologisms.
Forever true
