Does God Exist?

Does God exist?

I've always believed He does.  As a young child, I realized there was an intelligent presence too great for me to understand.  He was good and I could talk to him whenever I wanted.  He cared about me.  I liked having Him around.

I wasn't raised in a religious home.  I attended church occasionally, but more as a novelty than a habit.  My father is agnostic and my mother ambivalent.  The choice of whether to believe in God was completely mine.  Except it wasn't.  God chose me.  How could I not believe?

René Descartes used a priori reasoning to prove the existence of God.  His argument said that God has to exist because we conceive imperfection, implying perfection.  God is that perfection.  It's like our concept of light.  We would not have a word for darkness if there was no such thing as light.  A blind person doesn't perceive darkness.  They have no word for it, just as we have no word for what we see when we look out the back of our heads.  Without the contrast, there is no reason to create a label.  We label imperfection because we perceive perfection, which is God.

Science tends to avoid the question of God's existence.  Discovery science is a method of disproving theory.  You create a rational theory, then try to prove it's wrong.  If you can't disprove it, you assume it's true (until someone else disproves it later...).  God, as a theory, doesn't seem rational to many scientists, and He can't be disproved using available tools. 

Maybe scientists just haven't found their way to God yet.  Maybe someday they will find the mathematical equation that rationalizes a God theory.

Until then, I will continue to believe on faith.

Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."