Help, I’m an Atheist

An atheist is someone who says there is no God. So let me ask you, do you know everything? If you’re honest you would say “no, I don’t know everything.” So what you don’t know might be God. So you can’t say there is no God.

So the truth is you don’t know for sure whether there is or isn’t a God. You may not believe in God, but that is just a belief, not a fact. I believe because I have experienced God. And a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Which God?

But you probably have good reasons for doubting God’s existence. But then I would ask, which God don’t you believe in? I probably don’t believe in that God either.

I don’t believe God is just another being among other beings, but one that just happens to be Supreme. I believe God is the Ground of Being. God is Wholly Other, completely beyond all we can think or imagine. So whatever picture you have of God, that’s not the God I believe in.

The Universe

That there is a God becomes obvious when you think about it. The universe had a beginning, therefore it had to have a Beginner. The universe has design, so it has to have a Designer. The universe is in motion, all motion must have a Mover. Nothing moves itself. The Universe could not have come from nothing, because you get nothing from nothing.

Because we don’t even understand the nature of our own reality, I don’t think we can even begin to understand God. Our reality is not a thing, but an event. Nothing is permanent, all things change. All things are in flux.

God Does Not Exist

Our reality is a world of becoming, God’s reality is a reality of Being. God does not exist, He is Existence. And I use the pronoun “He” for a lack of a better one. God is not male.

Language is one of the problems, when we begin to talk about God. It’s hard to convey exactly what a Wholly Other would be like. We speak most accurately when we speak about what God isn’t.

Intuition

Because God is not a thing among things, but the very Being out of which things flow. You know that deep within. You have felt it occasionally when you are out in nature, or alone at night. There is Something More, you just don’t know what it is. But you know.

“They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused” (Romans 1:19-21 NLT).

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Dr. Jay N Forrest is a Spiritual Teacher of the Anglican Middle Way, writing on Prayer, Meditation, and Mysticism. Jay became a Christian in 1983, attended Bible school, and eventually earned his Doctorate in Ministry. Jay served as a Protestant minister for 27 years, took catechism classes with the Orthodox Church of America, and spent about a decade practicing Buddhism. In 2005, Jay was baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church, but has since joined the Episcopal Church.



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