my pErcEption of God

Human evolution and universes seems to be the most incongruent arguments to the human mind; nevertheless if there was an explanation for this or if there comes an explanation for this which is outside the divine power then that seems to be the end of existence of one supreme power. We have been taught from the very beginning of our thought process about the incompleteness of a world without God so that very few people truly believe there is no supreme power.

I don’t want to contest about the existence of the divine power but HIS/HER behavior.

We are told that God controls and maintains our lives and he knows about our life from the beginning to end. But I am not satisfied with this explanation. What is so special about life that makes it worth living? Believe it or not, it is the tremendous uncertainty and the expectation of the future. One who is able to see the future will definitely lose the anticipation and zest to live so much so that his life will be more or less zombie kind or even worse. I believe these are the same thoughts that lead the God to create the man. He wanted to see how man turn out to be if he is given intelligence and will power.

I certainly do believe that God controls our lives, but exactly how much? I don’t exactly believe in the notion that God knows all about the future of his children. What challenge is there to God, what is he to expect if he knows before hand what is going to happen? Then to God humans will be as robots are to humans. Even though a robot might not know what his next action will be the programmer will know. Other than a mechanical marvel such a robot will serve very little psychological help.

So my thesis is God created humans. He gave them a mind, thought and intelligence. He expects them to take their own course of action in their lives. But I definitely believe he does not have any idea about how the humans will behave. Just as the unpredictability and the uncertainty makes human life worth living it is the unpredictability and uncertainty in human lives that God wants to enjoy and live His fulfilling life.

Then does he have any control over our lives? I believe he has. That’s where prayer comes into picture. Our prayers being answered are those situations in which he guides us through difficulties, not because he sees the light at the end of the tunnel, but He too EXPECTS to see the light at the end.