The following article I found to be very interesting.  It was written by David Tritenback who is a retired Presbyterian minister.  The article was written under the heading, “Words to Live by – God Does Not Exist.”  It seemed strange to me that those words would be spoken by a minister.  Then further reading indicated that he was a former minister.  My mind answer at that time was, I guess with the indication that he was a “former minister,”  I concluded maybe that is why he wrote this article and decided  he would retire and that he could no longer believe.  But, after reading the article, it all fell into place and my conclusion was entirely wrong and I realized “what a thought-provoking article.”  It reads:

Humans have forever tried to define, describe, or prove the “existence of God.”  But it is an exercise in futility.  Why?  Because God does not “exist.”  But before you call me an Atheist, let me explain.  Everything that exists has been brought into existence by a prior source or cause.  If God “exists,” he logically has been brought into existence by a prior creator.  God stands alone as the source of all creation and not part of it.  This will always be a great mystery to the human mind.  We are only able to even ask the question of God because we are created with the ability to think God’s thoughts after him.  “Cognitive scientists are increasingly finding that belief in some kind of God is hardwired into the brain and cannot be expunged,” claims Graham Lawton, who though an avowed atheist himself admits that “Atheism is psychologically impossible because of the way humans think.”  

David Bentley Hart in his book, “The Experience of God,” points out three questions the Atheist cannot answer:  Why is there something rather than nothing?   What makes reasoning possible?  And Why do we love?  

God is not “first among equals,” asserts Hart.  “God is the source of all that is, outside of being and beyond being, not one more thing within reality, but the Creative Reason that explains everything else.”   God’s nature is the basis for, and source of all existence.  As theologian Paul Tillich put it, God is the “Ground of all Being.”  It makes no sense to ask, “Who made God?”  God’s reason and cause are his own nature and existence.  The Old Testament struggles to affirm this truth in Exodus, where God symbolically and metaphorically tells Moses, “I am that I am.”  The best we can do, as I was taught in Sunday School many years ago, is to describe the attributes of God s “omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.”  

However we try to describe God, it is absolutely essential to affirm the reality of God, the one reality in which all our existence, knowledge, and love derive. God is at once dynamically present in our experience of the world and is approachable and caring.  How do we know this?  The reality of the mysterious God is revealed to us in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.  

God is not to be explained.  God, who is not a part of created existence is to be worshipped as the source of all that exists, including you and me.”

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