A thought on where God is and how he is truly known in our daily lives
I think that most people fail to realize God is not just in a church or some religious building or just in the Bible. Actually, I think we all forget sometimes where God is. While reading an Article titled "How God Doesnt Exist", I thought of some places where I find God, or where other people that I know find Him. To some people, God is in nature. While walking in the woods alone or with man's best friend(s), some people can be closest to God. Others find God in their family or their workplace.
Personnaly, I find God in a number of places. I find God in people. Those people don't have to be totally like God, but they try to be as good as they can and to help as many people as they can, but not counting their good deeds to make sure they have done enough. It comes naturally. I also find God in Science. Everything in the universe had to be created by God. People always say that humans were formed by sheer coincidence, and the universe was formed by coincidence, and our atmosphere having the perfect percentages of gases in it, and on and on and on. It is ironic that the people who have nothing to rely on but probability, since the things that they think are coincidences happened on a lucky role of the dice, do not say the impossible odds that we are on this earth and are still alive. WE HAVE A PURPOSE. No person on the earth is an accident. Science confirms a God again and again. Let's look at chemistry for example. More specifically, the element hydrogen. On our planet, hydrogen is extremely important to us. It is also very unique. When hydrogen goes from a liquid to a solid, the volume of the liquid increases. The particles get closer toghether, but the object you are looking at get's larger. God is trying to show his existence to us. I also find God in math. In the book(and a movie now) Contact by Robert Sagan, the heroine of the novel looks for a code in the Pi. Pi is extremely important to us, and would be to all extra terrestrials that have learned basic geometry. The heroine runs a computer program to find a code in Pi left by an intelligent creator. After months and months, the end of Pi comes. Zero after Zero after zero appear on her computer screen. She tries the number on an automatic grapher and it forms a perfect circle. At the end of the novel she is considering to convert to Christianity. Haven't you every wondered about Pi? Pi is a transcendental number, and it could keep going on forever. It amazes me. Numbers amaze me. The idea of algebra amazes me. 1+1=2 amazes me for the very reason that it is exact. Nothing in our lives is exact, except numbers. How did it come out that way? How did our forefathers make math a tangible subject? The best answer for me is that they didn't. Well, not alone. They had help. They grew in knowledge and wisdom. They got their minds from God. Why don't we think just like animals, with just basic instincts and no reasoning skills?
There are 3 kinds of people in this world, the completely ignorant, the people who always ask why? and wonder why they don't get answers, and people who ask why? and always get an answer. That answer is God. We may not know His reasons, but we will always have an answer.