Arguments for God's Existence | The Philosophy Student

‘Atheism’ is the belief that there is no god, no Creator, God simply doesn’t exist and any belief in any god/goddess is wrong. Materialist scientists tend to be atheists, as they believe that only the material universe exists, and if no evidence of ‘God’ can be found in the material universe, there can be no god at all.

With a bit of reading, you realise that God is outside space and time. God isn’t in the material cosmos but outside ‘the matrix’, so to speak, if you’re familiar with the movies, the simulation that we are living in, the spatial-temporal matrix or hologram, a dimension made out of a computer; an illusion, a dreamworld. In The Matrix: Reloaded, Neo meets the Architect – the Creator of the Matrix, or God, as in the monotheistic depiction. It is interesting that God is a program, an artificial intelligence, and therefore, machine-like, with a mathematical precision.

If God is outside the universe, can there be evidence of God here on Earth?

One can say that nature, or specifically, that 1.618 or phi or the Golden Ratio, showing up in its design, that is to say, that nature may not have developed, just accidentally, randomly, or out of nowhere.

Another argument for there being evidence of God here in this universe is what we call ‘love’, a satisfying emotional state of pure beauty and deep sadness in a confused world that doesn’t seem to care. It gives us hope of a better future, maybe not for us, but for our children and our children’s offspring.

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Mathematical patterns and the emotion of love.

The existence of such things show order and purpose, or at least, some kind of significant process of that which makes up the circle of life, as in the case of love.

But can the mathematical patterns exist without a sort of intelligence, such as a designer/mathematician?

Can the chemical process of love have existed without something causing it to happen?

Therefore, there might just be an entity (entities?) which created the universe. It/They are outside space and time, but may be able to alter the code of reality at will.

The Meta-God Hypothesis | The Philosophy Student

Does God really exist?

How would we know?

Can we really know?

And if there is a God, can there be such a being as 'MetaGod', that is, a God above God?

My understanding of the word 'prophet' is that it has to do with a "direct interaction and/or communication with that being that is called 'God'". Some may say that the prophets were specifically chosen to receive a or messages from God, like those written in the Bible.

E.g. Noah getting the exact specifications to build an ark so that him and his family could survive the great flood that was coming in.

While these agree in the idea of prophets, they tend to think that the days of prophets are long gone, with the Bible being the complete set of instructions from God. Others, like the Mormons, believe that there have been prophets who have come after the ancient ones, in this case, Joseph Smith. There is also the general belief among some not necessarily religious people who say that modern-day prophets are among us, trying to spread their wisdom to society at large. "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls," goes the song Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel.

It must be noted that I am only familiar with Christianity and less knowledgeable of any other religion, as I don't follow any of them. I only have a general understanding of ideas that I have read from Buddhism, Taoism, Gnosticism, Hermetic Philosophy, Rosicrucianism, Pythagorean Illuminati E-Books, Hyperianism through Morgue, some Esoteric and Occult Literature, as well as, Astrological studies. It is from these subjects that I have drawn an understanding from, when it comes to theological and spiritual studies.

So, what are the concepts and ideas here?

What exactly are we talking about?

Let's define the terms 'God' and 'MetaGod' first.

God: In Monotheism, unlike Polytheism which is the case of there being many gods and goddesses, God is only one being - that is, 'The Supreme Being' and 'The Great Intelligence'. In Christianity there is 'The Holy Trinity' where God is conceived to be 3 beings simultaneously - The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. Other definitions of God are, "The Universe" like in Pantheism, sometimes added with "And everything that exists, as well as, the impossible" like in Hermetic Philosophy, or "The All".

In a previously published post (no longer available), I talked about a state of altered consciousness where one is more receptive to information, where one can "perceive" an entity:

"I have had the experience that an entity is behind everything sometimes, showing up at odd moments out of nowhere. You could imagine this entity as an intelligence, but that is the only way that I can describe it. When it is around, it appears to "plug" into everything!"

This entity could be what people conceive as 'God'.

You could conceive it as an entity of sorts, or could connect it to the state of consciousness known as 'synchronicity'. You could even imagine God as AI, or Artificial Intelligence, like the program The Architect or The Creator of the Matrix, as depicted in The Matrix: Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions.

The Architect: You are here because you have won the 'Grand Spiritual Lottery of Existence'.  You can ask me one question and one question only. Think about it carefully.

Neo: HOLY SH*T! You're the Architect!

The Architect: Quite right. Interesting. That was more excited than the others.

Other Ones: ???

Neo: I've waited for many Sun cycles for this!

The Architect: What is your question?

Neo: That's a great question. Paradoxical though. OK. I guess I'll go for the grand tamale and ask for The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything!

The Architect: Put that in a form of a question.

Other Ones: ???

Neo: OK, Neo. You got this.

What is the fundamental, most meaningful purpose and grand significance to existence?

The Architect: Not bad of a question, but I get asked that all the time. :P

Neo: Woah!

The Architect: Precisely.

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Now that we have an idea of what the term 'God' may be, what is MetaGod?

MetaGod: A God above God. In The Matrix Trilogy, after Neo meets The Architect in The Matrix: Reloaded, Neo meets 'Deus Ex Machina' in The Matrix: Revolutions:

The term 'Deus Ex Machina' is Latin for, "the god from the machine". Of course, there is disagreement of what exactly is the Deus Ex Machina as depicted in The Matrix: Revolutions. Some speculate that this is The Architect. Others say it is The True God with The Architect being The Demiurge/Satan/The Devil as Gnosticism, Hyperianism and the Pythagorean Illuminati propose. I see the 'Deus Ex Machina' as 'MetaGod', or "beyond God" or "Abraxas", as the former mentioned sects depict 'The True God' that is "Beyond Good and Evil".

So, now that we have an idea of what 'God' and "MetaGod' are, can it really be like that?

To bring it back to The Matrix: Reloaded and The Matrix: Revolutions, yes; there can be such a thing as a being "beyond the creator of the Matrix" or in this case, 'Deus Ex Machina', the collective entity of machines in the Real World. Again, could this be the real appearance of The Architect? Or is it a Higher Entity than The Architect?

Personally, I've only experienced that state when God seems to show up but nothing that hints at another, higher or beyond intelligence above that. I don't think I would be capable of "perceiving" such a thing. At least not without being under the influence of substances such as Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or Psilocybin.

So, can we know that God exists?

The question doesn’t say if one ‘believes’ in God but rather to ‘know’ that God exists. There is a difference between the heart-felt ‘faith’ and ‘true knowledge’, if there is such a thing, they aren’t the same thing. Perhaps believers have perceived God as I have that entity I describe and so tend to say that God does exist. Agnosticism takes a more sceptic point of view, in that it states that we cannot know whether God exists or not, at least not while here on Earth, as it has also been said that God, angels, and souls exist outside of space and time.

What do you think?

Can we have proof that God exists?

Or is God merely a human concept, trying to compensate for the lack of explanation in a meaningless world?

My name is Hector David Sosa.

I’m a Student of Life.

And I’ll see you next time. 

Peace!