This idea of ‘absolute’ has always been a great interest to me. Today after going to the Masjid after leaving it for more than 1/2 a decade, this thought of why I am suddenly so much happier came up. I was once again enlightened by God’s glory. Moreover, to think that I can consider myself again as a believer of a monotheistic God, and to be able to be “good” again just bring a smile to my face.
There would be a lot of things people reading this blog won’t understand. For many, God is a superstitious being out there who can bring about so-call miracles - and to believe in such a being is basically unscientific or irrational. Many people, including some of my closest friends choose not to believe in God and choose to follow a path which is more rational and logical. Right now, I really cannot give a totally logical answer for the existence of God, and I don’t think that most philosophers tried but failed. But for me, God exists irrespective of the proof of His existence. If we can’t even prove that anyone except ourselves (really) exist in this world, it is impossible to prove God’s existence.
I would rather like to think of it as a sort of absolute goodness, as an aim. If we choose not to believe that everything in this world is relative and that there is actually something it is relative to, I think we can just about see that there exist a being of such good attributes that we can be a service of.
Two other things entered my head today. One was salvation, and the other is original sin. These are Christian ideas but interesting yet to think about them. I was thinking if this world was not made for salvation, and that there is nothing we are saved from, then what is the purpose of this life? Which brings me to beg the question: Are we born good. I asked Vincent the other day whether he believed that we were good by nature, and he answered we are neutral. I rather want to believe that we are born good since we are all created in God’s image, and we are given some sort of feedback (our conscience) to assess how good we are, and our guilt works to counter it. Of course, this is all theory of my own, don’t quote my religion on it.