Meeting God In The Middle

By Rowan B Colver

When Nietzsche proclaimed “God Is Dead” with his seminal philosophical work, he had a point. The “God of the gaps” theory was being dismantled with every new discovery. Automatic laws determined the ways things were, no God was necessary. When Soviet propaganda boasted that their man went to space and did not encounter God, they were drawing on images of heaven being in the sky. When God was not there, this idea too lost all of its weight.

Several philosophers, scientists, and comedians have rightfully poked many holes in the cultural phenomenon that God inhabits. And yet, no matter how many times you throw God out of the door, God reappears right behind you. Are all these valid thinkers missing the point? Is there something about God or a divine force in the universe that is being forgotten when we look under the bed and into the rainbow?

The idea that we are here and there is somewhere for us to look is fascinating enough to indulge further inquiry. Is it possible for a mechanical universe to be perpetual, and if so, how? Is it possible that an awareness like our own can be built from the ground up from seemingly random interactions in a strange bubble of time? Clearly, these things are possible, or we’d not experience them. What makes them possible, however, is something that is discussed and divulged in this in-depth and thorough examination.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Homunculus Media
• Release date: Apr 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215758243

Rowan B Colver

Rowan B. Colver is the founder of Homunculus Media

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Introduction

This is not the word of God. It is the word of one man. This word is based on the life-long journey of over forty years so far. Having been brought up in a Christian family and exposed to religious thinking through-out my life, my views naturally were westernised in some form and indoctrinated to a certain degree. As I grew older, and mortality came into view, I naturally began questioning the whole story of eternal life in heaven. Since I was young I had been told that if I was a good Christian, I’d live forever. It sounded like a good deal to me as Christian values happened to align with my own. I had a maturity about me that began to doubt the story, as it became ever more far-fetched with each passing day. A process of Socratic questioning took place within my mind that truly examined the idea of God and the purpose of religion. It became clear to me that God was all or nothing and since I am surrounded by all, there must be something higher than myself, more fundamental in this vast complexity than myself, and something out there that brought material existence and time with awareness into being. What we think about God and what there actually is, however, is yet to be fully realised. Whether you believe in God or not, or any form of deity or not, the concept of divinity and divine will is prevalent in all our lives. The world we live in has been built on firm beliefs in a natural order to the universe that transcends physical processes. A moral and right order that causes things to flourish within the chaos of potential is something we have all grown up around. Rather than a dubious story about an invisible man, understanding God begins with understanding the world, ourselves, and our evident place in it. I hope this book helps to bring you closer to the idea of God, and if not, closer to those who are.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness. Roger Scruton

This is not a book about God, nor is it a book about humankind. It is, in essence, a book about the space in between. Many sense this is always there and there have always been those who have dedicated their lives to understanding it. We cannot in all reasonability fully understand something so far outside of our world of comprehension that could be a source of all material, space, time, and the laws that govern them all. What we can understand is how the world we live in responds to our presence. The world bites back, it is a living organism that manifests as many separate entities and phenomena as possible that serve and hinder human life. There are forces at work in the world that cannot be manipulated or changed. The nature of reality itself is held together by a mysterious force and we, as a part of this reality, are also held together by this same mystery.

The source of the world, the reason for all things, and the drive to make it happen were and are of significant interest to people. The only connection we have with the source of everything and the reason behind it was in the way reality behaved. Reality, in its extent, is the experience of being alive and the information we can record about it. Through the experience of being alive and understanding the natural order of the world according to our actions we can begin to understand the place humankind has in the universe. The universe came from a place where our time and space were yet to be created and yet nothing can come from a source that was not already present in some form. Understanding the will or natural psychology of this source of material existence, and the awareness it has evolved to harness, is how we begin to bridge that infinite space between here and there.

The idea of God in some form has been prevalent since the time of recorded history, and probably for much longer than that. These ideas probably didn’t just spring into being upon the advent of written and pictorial language. They undoubtedly formed and blossomed then fruited across a long line of thinkers and generations. So, with this concept and idea system available for input for so long, we can be assured that modern society is based on this evolving idea-set at its most primal core. The laws we uphold and the social rules we instinctively follow can all be rooted in religious belief. The way we view ourselves in society and the things we aspire to achieve are based on inset systems of morals and ethics which are directly related to the idea of divinity or creative will in the universe. Thou Shalt Not Kill as a commandment to the early Judaic tribe of Moses is such a prevalent idea that it is echoed across the entire globe. We all agree on it, and it takes a great bureaucratic effort to negate this law. Death warrants and declarations of war are decisions only taken right from the top.

The idea of a divine will in the universe has been available and therefore has been a formative part of our global culture since the earliest days. Our traditions and processes are all concepts based on ideas that have roots in this ancient understanding of the world, with the most fitting and most successful ideas making it this