Posted by Eddie Sylvano on November 21, 2002, at 14:23:33
Hypothetical: You were born and raised in a small community that never discussed issues of religion, creation, or afterlife, so you have no external influences. Why would you come to belive in a divine creator (and potentially an afterlife)? What would compell you to do so? It's obviously already happened, as someone had to be the first with the notion. What is it about the nature of our universe that requires, and can only be satisfied by, the existance of a higher being? It's not a trivial thing to commit oneself to faith, and begs the question in me of "why?". Does it satisfy a particular set of concerns, or is it simply inviolate and innate, independant of any specific purpose? Did the idea have to be introduced into mankind, or is it innate as well? Are we simply wired to inferr the existance of a god?
I ask a lot of questions, but it's only because it's hard for me to properly define my inquiry. I'm not interested in whether or not a god exists, but the origin of human awareness of his/her/it's existance. Say you believe it: what gave you the idea?
poster:Eddie Sylvano
thread:1262
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