IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? Part-1
HOLY LAND MAN provides the most comprehensive debate of the existence of a GOD from a scientific aspect to help nonbelievers and semi-believers find the right answer.
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GOD Gives Only Hints To Few Chosen Humans
An ordinary man with speech impairment (1) was chosen by GOD to lead the people of Israel and be close to GOD
GOD sent a boy (2) a hint in his dream. He later became just a clerk but received more hints from GOD. Only 115 years later we learned that he was right and GOD’s hints were real.
A feverish hallucinating young scientist (3) discovered the world’s most profound scientific formulas in two weeks.
GOD chose to manifest in the body of a rebellious young Jew (4) who fights the establishment and the government, gets often schooled and eventually crusified.
GOD gave Biblical code hints to a rebelious man (5) from the Holy Land who didn’t even have a Bible at home. That man always fought for the truth and against the establishment when needed. That man invented the scientific proof of GOD.
An ordinary woman (6) got Divine inspiration to stand up to racial discrimination, was jailed, and made historical change in racial equality.
1 Moses
2 Einstein
3 Newton
4 Jesus
5 HOLY LAND MAN
6 Rosa Park
HOLY LAND MAN understands these numerical vibrations as a sacred and divine language code from GOD. He believed that he was chosen to understand this code and deliver it to the world. HOLY LAND MAN loves GOD without religion.
IS THERE A GOD?
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? Part-2
Laws of nature as evidence to the existence of GOD.
HOLY LAND MAN: This is the most comprehensive debate regarding the existence of a GOD from a scientific aspect to help nonbelievers and semi-believers find the right answer.
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? Part-3
The Evidence In The Design And Its Complexity
HOLY LAND MAN: This is the most comprehensive debate regarding the existence of a GOD from a scientific aspect to help nonbelievers and semi-believers find the right answer.
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? Part-4
The Evidence Of Human Consciousness. Materialistic claim brain excretes consciousness. Consciousness Is Fundamentally Different From Matter.
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? Part-5
Evidence Of Human Morality; We perceive morality as objective and not subjective; Is Morality Made Of Merely Molecules?; Our Moral Intuitions; I conclude here that the supreme power is GOD; Prove of A GOD
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? Part-6
The Evidence of Revelation; Are the testimony of many and the belief of the majority makes it a fact?; The Argument of Hallucination; Can we doubt tangible experiences?
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? part-7
Evidence Based On The History Of The People Of Israel (People Of The Bible); The Torah Of The Bible; A Miracle As A Proof Of GOD; What The Greatest World’s Scholars Thought Of The Chosen People Of the Bible; Mark Twain About the Jews (Sep 1897); Leo Tolstoy “What Is A Jew?” (1891); President John Adams about the Jews (1808)
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? part-8 Conclusion
Holy Land Man has demonstrated to you, using seven different scientific methods of evidence, the existence of GOD. Holy Land Man has proven the existence of a very intelligent designer of life and of probably this universe.
IS GOD EVIL OR UNWORTHY OF OUR TRUST?
Right off the bat in Genesis, HOLY LAND MAN noticed that GOD warned Adam and Eve that they would die if they ate of the forbidden fruit. Eve decided to eat the fruit and die. Yet, GOD did not keep his word and decided
1. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GOD IS EVIL?
GOD has told us many things, through the Torah and the prophets: that he created the world, that he oversees it, that there is no GOD but him, that he has chosen us to be a virtuous people, that he gives reward and punishment,
2. CONSEQUENCES OF THE BELIEF IN AN EVIL GOD
If we assume that GOD is evil, what is in doubt is not only the credibility of the Bible but the credibility of our most basic tools of cognition: senses, reason, memory, conscience, and so on. We can rely on nothing, not even scientific evidence and the most convincing logic, because they too can be a hoax.
3. IF GOD IS EVIL THEN… WHAT?
In short, if we assume that GOD is evil, lying, or unreliable, it means that we can no longer trust anything. Not the senses, not logic, not memory, not science, nor even the things that seem most obvious to us. If GOD deceives us, we can know nothing about anything.
4. CHOOSING THE POSITIVE OPTION
Is it possible to refute this possibility? Theoretically, could it be true? Since we have no way of finding out the truth, what we can do is check which of the two options advances us more.
5. IS THE WORLD AN ILLUSION?
We will always have to wonder if maybe the whole world is an illusion, maybe what seems good to us is actually bad and vice versa, maybe GOD wants us to do the opposite of what he says, and so on.
6. WANT TO LIVE A GOOD AND PURPOSEFUL LIFE?
Therefore, if we want to live a good and meaningful life and build for ourselves a system of beliefs and knowledge, we must assume that GOD is good and trustworthy, and that he does not usually deceive us.
7. THE PARADOX OF MALTESE-ISM
The attitude that GOD is evil is called “Maltese” in philosophy, and it is no coincidence that it is difficult to find serious philosophers who support it.
8. DO WE TRUST OUR MORAL SENSE?
In fact, the very existence of such a strong moral sense within us can serve as a reason to prefer a faith in the good GOD.
9. HOW CAN AN EVIL GOD CREATE RIGHTEOUS BEINGS?!
Some philosophers say GOD is evil, but how can they say that? If they are so moral and righteous, it would have been GOD that gave them those virtues, and therefore, he couldn’t be evil.
SUMMARY: IS GOD GOOD
It is impossible to prove that GOD is good and does not lie to us or deceive us, but this belief allows us to advance in learning, understanding, acquiring knowledge, and developing better values and views. If we assume that GOD is evil or deceptive, then every thought and feeling becomes questionable, and we can go nowhere.
IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD?
Philosophical evidence for the existence of GOD is relatively new. Belief in GOD is essentially intuitive, and it is sometimes accompanied by religious and spiritual experiences.
10. THE COSMOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF GOD
In the ancient world, people believed in GOD or “the GODs” naturally, without any logical proof. The very fact that this belief appeared in all ancient cultures without exception testifies to its intuitiveness.
11. WHY SHOULD WE GO DEEPER IN PROVING GOD’S EXISTENCE?
It is essential to make it clear that around each of these arguments, many pencils have been broken and pens have run out of ink. The best philosophical minds in the world have devoted themselves to establishing or criticizing these arguments.
12. DOES ABSOLUTE PROOF OF GOD EXIST?
It is essential to understand that “absolute proof” does not exist, neither here nor in any subject. Every proof, including the logic itself, is derived from assumptions, which in themselves are not inherently provable or reasonable, but simply seem logical and intuitive.
13. WHY DO HUMANS EXIST?
The cosmological argument begins with a simple question: Why does the universe exist? When people see an object, they automatically assume that there must be some reason for its existence.
14. ACCEPT THE “FIRST CAUSE” WITHOUT QUESTIONING
Consequently, philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas have concluded that there must be a first cause of its own in the universe. This cause cannot have another cause. The chain of causes that led to the universe’s existence and all that is in it all begins from this cause.
15. ARE THERE FAULTY ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOD’S EXISTENCE?
A common error is to assume that if everything has been created by something else, then something other than GOD created GOD. This error indicates a lack of understanding of the argument since the argument is based on the assumption that not everything has a reason.
16. CAN GOD HAVE NO ATTRIBUTES?
I say, only something committed to reality can be the first reason. The universe is not bound by reality since any part of it can cease to exist. The universe itself can also cease to exist entirely.
17. LAWS OF NATURE AS EVIDENCE OF GOD’S EXISTENCE
We live in a universe made up entirely of moving particles of matter, from rotating electrons to galaxies. We are not surprised when we see living things moving, but we would be surprised if we suddenly saw inanimate objects moving on their own.
18. LET’S CONSIDER AN EXAMPLE
Suppose the table in your living room began to rise in the air at regular intervals, once every half hour, making a few turns around its axis and descending back down.
19. THE HUMAN WILLPOWER AS A GUIDING FORCE TO UNDERSTANDING GOD
Humans and other living things can move their bodies through their will. Accordingly, willpower moves objects in the universe. But what level of desire can move the universe?
20. GREEK PHILOSOPHY EXPLAINING MOVEMENT WITHIN THE UNIVERSE
Aristotle believed that every object in the universe is driven by its own will. Thus, a stone falls because it wants to return to earth, while an air bubble rises from the water because it aspires to return to the atmosphere from which it originates. Likewise, the desire of the stars and other celestial bodies is what causes their motion.
21. IS EVERYTHING DRIVEN BY WILL?
Aristotle called it universal will. We call it individual will when it refers to ourselves or GOD’s will when we are looking at the bigger picture.
22. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE UNIVERSE’S UNEXPLAINABLE FORCES
Similarly, the existence of the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force, as well as the force from particles that cannot be directly observed, are also determined.
23. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD VS THE EXISTENCE OF GRAVITY
Belief in GOD is like belief in gravity: each adds to human knowledge by rational inquiry, which is why rational inquiry is the means of discovering the existence of GOD.
24. THE EVIDENCE IN THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN ARGUMENT AND ITS COMPLEXITY FOR GOD’S EXISTENCE
While the cosmological argument is based on the very existence of the universe, the argument from design (also called the complexity argument, or the physio-theological argument) is based on certain features of the universe or parts of it and the high level of complexity.
25. INTUITIVE EVIDENCE OF GOD
This evidence about GOD seems intuitive, so it occupies a central place in discussions about GOD’s existence. It is based not only on our intuitions, which identify the designer’s imprint in complex works but also on experience.
26. WHERE DOES THE COMPARISON OF INTELLIGENT WORKS COME FROM?
There are some reviews on this argument. The philosopher David Hume argued that we cannot make an analogy between clocks and other familiar works of art and the universe and living beings, since we know that clocks are man-made.
27. THE POWER OF INTUITION
Similarly, suppose a technological object is found on Mars. In that case, it will be immediately apparent that an intelligent entity designed it, even if we have never seen how such an item is made.
28. RESPONDING TO ATHEIST BELIEFS
I would like you to think of GOD here as a particle or entity but NOT a religious one, just as I have been assuming throughout this entire book.
29. AN ATHEISTIC ARGUMENT
As noted by the philosopher (atheist) Daniel Hume, this is an old and unfounded argument that a philosophy student with good talent can refute. For an explanation to be successful, there is no need for an explanatory answer.
30. WHAT ATHEISTS MAY GET WRONG
All this is based on the assumption that GOD is indeed something “complex.” Before Dawkins, many philosophers and theologians argued that GOD is not complex at all, but merely the purpose of the raids until any definition could define it.
THE EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Human consciousness is an absolute wonder. It is the thing through which we think, understand and perceive reality, create, feel, and experience. It is in fact the only thing we experience directly, in the first person, with absolute certainty. And yet, the essence of
31. MATERIALISTS CLAIM BRAIN EXCRETES CONSCIOUSNESS
Materialists claim that consciousness is nothing but a product of matter, something that appears in some way from brain activity – just as the kidneys excrete urine, so the brain excretes consciousness.
32. CONSCIOUSNESS IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM MATTER
Complex things have features that are not in the details that make them up, or so-called emergences (like the moisture of the water, which does not exist in individual molecules but exists in the whole).
33. IS CONSCIOUSNESS A MIRACLE? WOULD IT UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE?
Not only is the very existence of consciousness a miracle that is not understood in the materialistic world, but so is our ability to understand the universe.
34. LET’S COMPARE TO ANTS
Countless species on earth, such as insects, do not have real awareness as far as we know, and yet they have survived and thrive for much longer than human existence in the world.
35. IS MATHEMATICS THE KEY?
One of the great mysteries is the meaning of the miraculous correspondence between mathematical concepts and the structure of the universe and the laws of nature.
36. MY CONCLUSION: HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS DIDN’T EVOLVE BY CHANCE
These mysteries and many more illustrate how unlikely it is to see in human consciousness as something that “grew by chance” from matter, as a result of blind evolutionary processes.
37. ATHEIST-MATERIALIST APPROACH FAILS, BUT I’VE YET TO PROVE GOD’S EXISTENCE
But even if we do not take it in this direction (although quite a few philosophers and scientists follow it), it is clear that consciousness is a miracle that requires explanation, and that the atheist-materialist approach is unable to explain it.
EVIDENCE OF HUMAN MORALITY
Most mentally healthy human beings have basic and very strong moral intuitions embedded in them, intuitions that things like murder, robbery, and harm to innocent people are negative. The way in which the same moral intuitions are applied varies, of course, from society to
38. WE PERCEIVE MORALITY AS OBJECTIVE AND NOT SUBJECTIVE
A careful examination of those moral intuitions leads to the conclusion that we perceive morality not as a subjective emotion but as an objective, absolute, and binding reality.
39. IS MORALITY MADE OF MERELY MOLECULES?
Unsurprisingly, many proponents of error theory are atheists, for in a world that has nothing but inanimate matter and blind laws of nature, there is no reality that can be a source of objective morality.
40. OUR MORAL INTUITIONS
The only way our moral intuitions can be justified is by acknowledging that in reality there are absolute moral facts, which are not part of the material nature but are beyond it, and whose inner intuitions are a reflection of them.
41. I CONCLUDE HERE THAT THE SUPREME POWER IS GOD
This power could be a particle or the well-known GOD. The same power is also the one that has instilled in us the moral sense that allows us to recognize those moral facts and feel our commitment to them.
CHAPTER’S CONCLUSION
I have demonstrated here, using seven different scientific methods of evidence, the existence of GOD. I have proven the existence of a very intelligent designer of life and of probably this universe.
PROOF OF A GOD
This vision is good only for those people who do feel that there is absolute good and evil and are not willing to see this feeling as a “mistake.” But there are many such people, and this observation can definitely prove the existence of
42. THE EVIDENCE OF REVELATION
This argument for the existence of GOD is very simple: we know that GOD exists, because many people have testified that they have met him.
43. DOES THE TESTIMONY OF MANY AND THE BELIEF OF THE MAJORITY MAKE IT A FACT?
For a moment, let’s not think of GOD as a religious GOD but an entity that is superior to us. It can even be a particle. Crowds of people throughout history have described experiences of divine revelation they have had, religious or mystical experiences, visions, prophecy, and the like.
44. THE ARGUMENT OF HALLUCINATION
They claim that while the people who have experienced divine revelations believe in their truth, it is possible that these are all hallucinations caused by various reasons.
45. CAN WE DOUBT TANGIBLE EXPERIENCES?
The problem with this critique is that if we doubt tangible experiences that seem certain to us, and treat them as hallucinations, what can we say is true? Maybe the reality we are experiencing at the moment is also a dream or a hallucination?
46. IS RELIGION MERELY A DRUG-LIKE EXPERIENCE?
In other words, our default is to assume that what we perceive to be true is indeed true, unless proven otherwise. There are things that seem real to us at the time, like dreams or hallucinations resulting from drug use, but once they pass we recognize that they never really came true.
47. DO THE DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS APPROACHES CONTRADICT “A GOD”?
I say they are similar in the experience but different in the interpretation and the methods of what pleases their GOD. I also believe that most religions manipulate “GOD’s will” to fit their political agenda “in the name of GOD.”
48. THE EXPERIENCE IS SIMILAR – THE PERCEPTION INDIVIDUALISTIC
In any case, there is no evidence in the multiplicity of different testimonies that these are hallucinations. If aliens had come to Earth several times, they would probably describe it in completely different ways: one would see a sea, the other a forest, and the third a large city.
BE OPEN TO EVIDENCE, WHATEVER IT MAY BE
He who rejects in advance any testimony that sounds “delusional” to him only because of his prejudices about reality, and what may or may not be in it, is not a rational person but dogmatic and closed. Anyone who is willing to accept extraordinary
49. EVIDENCE BASED ON THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE)
It is said that the King of France once asked the philosopher Belz Pascal to give him evidence of the existence of GOD. Pascal replied without hesitation: “The Jews, Your Excellency.”
50. THE TORAH OF THE BIBLE
The unique history of the People of Israel would have been preached even if the Torah (first 5 books of the Bible) had not foreseen it in advance.
51. A MIRACLE AS A PROOF OF GOD
Some people claim they would believe in GOD if they saw a miracle. But what greater miracle than the history of the People of Israel? Isn’t the return of Zion a much greater and more impressive miracle than a fire descending from the sky or a sea split in two?
52. MARK TWAIN ON THE JEWS (SEP 1897)
“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one quarter of one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of.
53. LEO TOLSTOY “WHAT IS A JEW?” (1891)
“This question is not as strange as it may seem at first glance. Let’s examine this free creature that was insulated and oppressed, trampled on and pursued, burned and drowned by all the rulers and the nations, but is nevertheless living and thriving in spite of the whole world.
54. PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS ON THE JEWS (1808)
“They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their Empire were but a Bauble in comparison of the Jews.
LEAPING WITHIN THE REALITY CREATED BY GOD
Even if none of the evidence is absolute proof, their great power stems from putting them together. In fact, they can be seen as a move that reveals a series of unexpected “leaps” within reality.
55. ORDER OR CHAOS
If we were to ask someone who has no idea about our universe, what he thinks a planned universe should look like and what a randomly created universe would look like, he would probably answer that a planned universe would have laws, complexity, diverse creatures, consciousness, and constant progress.
56. IF GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE, THEN, WHO CREATED GOD?!
I’m not trying to be controversial, but this is a question humans want answers to. I read the Bible in its original language and I was gifted the code2GOD.
57. CAN WE ACTUALLY EXPLAIN THE UNIVERSE?
Because something can still be said about evidence. Contrary to popular belief, the existence of GOD is one of the most proven facts there is. In fact, it is proven at least as much as the existence of gravity, as I am about to explain.
58. HOLY LAND MAN EXPLAINS
When the question arises: Who said that every phenomenon must have an explanation? How can we conclude the existence of such and such only on the basis of the existence of unfamiliar phenomena? After all, the whole chain of explanations has to stop at some point.
59. CAN WE SIMPLIFY THE EXPLANATION EQUATION?
So if we admit that there are hard facts that cannot be explained, on what basis do we add entities in explanations of the type of position on the unfamiliar? Perhaps the phenomenon before us is simply a rigid fact of reality, and there is no entity behind it?
60. LET’S TALK ABOUT GRAVITY AS A PARADIGM EXAMPLE
through the existence of gravity is an explanation of the kind of position on the unfamiliar. After all, until Newton, scientific investigation did not recognize the existence of such a force.
61. IS IT DESCRIBING, BUT NOT EXPLAINING?
It is true that there are people who deny the existence of gravity. According to them, Newton did not create the existence of any entity whatsoever, but only accurately described what was happening. He did not explain the phenomena; he only described them.
62. CAN YOU ACCEPT GRAVITY BUT NOT GOD?
Having said this, one can understand why the existence of GOD is a proven fact just like the existence of gravity. Like gravity, GOD also constitutes an explanation for many separate phenomena: the existence of the universe, laws of nature, living and human beings, consciousnesses, miracles and experiences of revelation, and so on.
63. CAN WE QUESTION GOD AND THE UNIVERSE?
Maybe it’s the flying spaghetti monster?” Well, one might as well ask: “Who said gravity is what causes objects to fall?