Free verse № 142214
Genesis
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1 In the beginning, God created heavens and earths.
2 And upon one of the earths, God made men in great numbers.
3 For His pleasure and in His image, God created men, and provided a problem worthy of their minds: He left them with too little food.
4 The evening and the morning were the first day. And God saw that it was good.
5 Seeing there was not enough food for all of them, the people fought and killed each other, and some of them horded food. Some starved, while others grew fat.
6 God saw the wickedness of man, that it was great in the earth, and it grieved God that he had made man.
7 God said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, unless they repent.
8 And God sent aids and earthquakes and tidal waves to reduce their numbers, and when they still did not repent, but kept on fighting and hording, God sent the gentle birds with inborn death.
9 The evening and the morning were the second day, and great was the death in it.
10 Then pestilence rose up from the earth and fiery rocks fell from heaven until all the animals died, and only some plants remained alive.
11 The evening and the morning were the third day.
12 Then the mountains roared, and gray clouds blocked the sun, so the plants had no light; and all the plants died.
13 The evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God saw that it was good.
14 Then the water boiled and the earth became acid and hot. Venus clouds shrouded the earth, and nothing could live because of the acid and the heat.
15 The evening and the morning were the fifth day.
16 Then the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
17 On the sixth day, a probe descended, sent from another world. God saw the probe, that it was good, and took renewed pleasure in the mind of man.
18 God believed once more that man was strong, as He was strong, that man would understand. Created in His own image, they would understand.
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God has craftily kept that to Himself, Iâm afraid. Or at least He has made it so obscure as to elude impartial observation. It is possible that evidence exists for God's existence, but as yet we donât know it. Some people claim the miracles as evidence, but I find most of them unverified. Still, I would try not to be hostile to future proofs for God's existence and thereby less objective about attempted proofs.
Having no proof for God, we have little with which to even describe Him. But whether or not something exists does not depend on whether or not it can be described. If something exists, it exists independently of our ability to describe it. Things exist whether or not someone knows they exists, let alone accurately describes them.
Religious belief can be thought of as circular: Because we long for God, such longing must imply the existence of a deity. One might as well say that because we long for immortality, immortality must be possible. As long as humans cannot bear to contemplate their own extinction, there will always be another Baal, and atheism will always be a minority stance.
I respect the atheist position, since my own is based on no more evidence.
âThose who don't believe in God are comfortable with this life as their only existence,â as you say. But I am also comfortable with only this mortal life. I see no connection between believing in God and explaining what happens after death.
I admire your faith that creation of the universe âwill eventually be explained in solid scientific theory.â My faith does not extend to such grandiose achievements.
When asked if he believes in Jesus, Einstein said, âUnquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
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