¶ … soon as a person becomes conscious that he is a rational being, he also realizes that he is alike and different from other rational beings. He is like them in the struggle to maintain the life he has been given and, which inherently values as his primary good. Yet he is unlike the rest in that he can and does make choices different from theirs or none at all while others still make them. He realizes that, while they are in a parallel or single journey or pursuit, he is separate, entire and independent from them and they are from him.
The person is witness to people getting born and dying. This leads to the universal assumption of human mortality -- that he can and will die some time. Yet the life he lives now seems to crave for an endlessness, to which mortality is a direct and sharp negation. Two forces clash within him: the logical end of this life and the real yearning for immortality. Add this restlessness to the question as to where each person is going and why he is here, in the first place.
Using both analysis and logic, he cannot be here by his own faculties. He is not a cause, but an effect. His parents, grandparents, and ancestors cannot be the initiator of his existence and the designer of his end or endlessness. Someone greater -- with more than his capabilities and the sum total of all the capabilities of all his predecessors and those to follow us all - has to be behind it all. He must know the end from the beginning. He must be the author of one's creation, life and destiny. He must be in control not only of the world and all of creation but also sustains all creation for a purpose all His own. And that unless each creature accepts and lives according to that purpose, that creature will forfeit his life. This life is but a loving invitation from this Someone Greater to each creature to share His life that is un-ending. Everything that happens to each creature - no matter what - is a testimony to that Great, all-Intelligent and loving Being Who wants to share His eternity with us, finite creatures. He is called God. #
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