When I was sitting across the table with a fella who can’t stop babbling about God, and how great it is to join the church. I can’t help myself but to wonder, does he really know what he is talking about when he speak of God? He speak so passionately about God as if he knows God in person, and he had a cup of tea with God before. Although I am obviously bothered by the conversation, I don’t want to offend him by asking him to stop, I know his type, and I know what button to push to shut him off. As he goes on and on about the miracles God can create, and how he can be so ruthless at punishing bad people, I break into laughter. I laugh not to disrespect him, and obviously not to disrespect God, but the concept of God to some just doesn’t make any sense to me. It is ridiculous to believe that such loving, caring God can torture and cause endless pain to bad people for eternity.

Try to remember the first thing you did when you are young, the very first thing, are you praying to God? How about the first step you took when you just learn how to walk, do you need God’s help? How about when you are being cuddled by your mom, did you remember God’s warmth? I guess not. So why is it that the older you get, the more you needed God? And why is it that you tend to remember God only when you are in a deep pile of mud? Don’t you think it is unfair to God? I guess so. Other then that, I am puzzled with the exclusiveness of God. Why is it that I have to join a particular “club” to know God? All those questions paralyze my ability to join a particular religion whole heartedly, I guess most people are bothered by those questions too whether they are in a religion or not.

So a few years back, I set a quest to answer those questions on my own through the major world religions, although I worried that I might go nuts in the process but thankfully I am still sane today, I think . I went to both extremes, creationism and atheism, but to me both extremes are not favorable. It really doesn’t make any sort of difference which religion you choose to be in, the formality and the customs of each religion might be different, but fundamentally it boils down to this, do you believe in God, or not?

Creationism

What is creationism? Almost all major religion that I’ve ever encounter with worship a singular external entity called God, the one God, the God that created all, in western society it used to be represented by an old man with white beard or the big hand. Basically in creationism concept everything can be explained by just pointing at something and says, “It is created by God”. If you follow the debate between Creationism and Atheism in Youtube or books, you know they are always on the easies side. They don’t need any scientific explanation because God defy any human understanding, but if a scientific report showed up every once in a while that support their ideas, they’ll mention it again and again in the future debates.

For some people they love to follow the latest news about world disaster, then if major disaster did happen they’ll tell their friends and family that the world is about to end, and what it says in the book is true. Then a few weeks later, when the world doesn’t end as it should the topic just suddenly disappear. If there is another major disaster the same topic resurface again, usually people whom are in a particular “club” use this method Social Engineering to lure their friends or family members into the “true path”, the same path that they are taking, if you ever encounter such people before, you know what I am talking about.

They love to compare their religion with others, and the conclusion is always the same, their religion is always better then others, other religion sucks because of such and such, and others should join their “club” because it is the best, and it is the “only true path”. Some religion even go to the extreme of calling other religion a fake and all of them will burn in hell because all of them doing it wrongly. When they said that religion is doing it wrongly, they meant the protocol in which how they communicate with God is wrong, due to that all of them will burn in hell along with the atheist.

Atheism

As you might have heard, Atheist refer to those who doesn’t believe in the existence of God. To them science is their refuge, usually people who is an atheist are well educated, I am not saying all but most of them are. To the atheist people who believe in God are still living in the 19th century, Creationist don’t want to move on because a world without God is a world not worth living. But to the Atheist a world with God is a world not probable for existence because to them, complex entity such as God that is capable of designing and creating every thing in the universe must be even more complex then the universe it created. But atheist can’t reveal their true belief to everyone, because in this part of the world, not believing in God will raise people’s eye browse.

Almost all argument Atheist made towards the Creationism is about religion, more precisely, the rule and protocols of religion, and the source or religion. Some Atheist even go as far as relating religion with a type of mental sickness, not only that, Atheist claims that if human beings are to continue to exist in the next century, the concept of religion must be eliminated because it segregate all humans , a war that would wipe out everyone and everything is bound to happen. To me that point of view is quite extreme, but to a certain extend they got a point.

Is there really just 2 set of ideas?

Although some beg to differ, but the answer is No. Thanks to the effort made by modern philosophers such as Eckhart Tolle (Author of an excellent book called The Power Of Now) they provide a whole new point of view. What they propose is each of us is a cell for a larger body, in other words all of us belongs to the single entity, and our actions and reactions towards something can affect all of us one way or another, and the body that we live and exist in is what all of us called God.

Again this idea is opposed strongly by both creationist and atheist, but to some it made absolutely perfect sense. Now God is describe as everything that is in existents, the rocks, the air, you and me, the animals, even the space between objects are part of God, and we are God, everything are one. Lets put it in this way, all modern science agree that part of the reason why the universe is moving further and further away from each other because of a gargantuous explosion that happened a few million years ago that gave birth to the entire universe, and that explosion start from a single dot that is smaller then the size of your palm. Everything, all the formulas of life, the rock, the sun, the wind, the dust, the air, all start from a single dot, so aren’t we part of one?

This idea doesn’t require you to join any religion, or to believe in anything, all you need to do is to search within yourself, and to know it for yourself. So far there isn’t any debate between this point of view with the both of the extremes, maybe because this idea stay in between creationism and atheism, people just don’t know what to make of it, or maybe this idea is still very new. I stumble upon Eckhart Tolle’s book when I was looking for the other book in the “Self Help” section, the title caught my eye and I end up purchasing it instead after flipping through the first chapter in the book store.

The concept of Oneness with God can answered all of my questions

Currently the oneness concept resonance with my spiritual believes, I am not perfect, my cells are not all perfect, but the cells is still part of “me”. What I contribute to world does have an effect on the universe, if I play nice I know I will be rewarded, if I don’t I will be rewarded too in an unfavorable way, in Buddhism it is called Karma. God is everywhere, it is always there, and it is going to be there when there is there (it is not a typo error), regardless whether you think it is there or not, or whether which “club” you have membership with, it is not exclusive, it is not private, if you search deep inside your heart with stillness you just might be able to touch God. In this concept God is not an external entity, but it is within all of us.

I hope this article can give you an overview about the subject of God, frankly what I’ve written here is an over simplify version of what I’ve discovered throughout the year. If I write it all down I might be able to publish a book about it! Don’t just believe what I say about God, in fact don’t believe what everybody else says, you need to know on your own, you need to find out for yourself because if you don’t, the questions I mentioned previously will haunt you later in life, and all those questions can easily strike fear in your heart. Trust me.