God, Doing His Thing

THE GENTLEMAN HAS A POINT, and I agree with it. On a Facebook post, he says, paraphrased: "The Christian God sends himself to Earth, to be born into the world from the body of a woman, (a woman who, according to scripture quite young, and according to our modern beliefs, too young to give birth to and raise a child.) God grows up as a human being, and sacrifices himself to himself, to atone for the sins of creatures of his own creation, and to whom he bestowed the ability to sin, free will. God, in effect, sacrifices himself to himself, since Christ is God, in fact both God and man, according to church doctrine voted on at the Council of Nicea. Rather circular. Somewhat convoluted. Christian devotees use arguments such as "free will", and the mysterious nature of God. There is no evidence of free will, that it exists. There is an abundance of evidence that every particle of matter and every quanta of energy in the universe behaves according to natural law,"nature" either being the creation of God, or God itself. As a pantheist, I subscribe to the latter, as does, for example, Einstein. God, nature, the universe, the cosmos, all the same "thing". The pantheism of Spinoza and Einstein. If scinetists ever discover any evidence for the existence of free will, or discover free will itself, we must have faith that they will share it with us, and not conspire to conceal it. God splits himself, or herself, or itself, into three parts, the God head, Christ, and the holy ghost, so they say. All well and good. Whatever works, as we like to say. A religion is, after all, a theory, a belief system, an explanation for all existence, including ours. Of the more than four thousand religions on Earth, they cannot all be true...or can they? They can, however, all be false. Since I was a child I have considered the Christian religion to be "false', in that it is fiction. This is based on my reading of the first few chapters of "Genesis". By the time it gets to the flood, I became skeptcal. Halfway throgh Genesis, more so. Exodus, and the parting of the Red See, even more so. Today, late in life, more so still. But I can't prove that every word in the Bible isn't true, so maybe it is. At one point in the Bible it describes stars as glass trinkets hanging from the dome of the firmanment which, upon the return of Chrst, shall fall from the sky and shatter on the Earth. On another occasion, stars are pin prick holes in the dome, through which the blazing light of heaven shines through. Maybe, just maybe, I can disprove al that. But really, I can't, not without help. We have, very much intact and thriving, a twenty first century religion invented by humankind two shousand years ago, and better suited to the ancient world than the modern one. Christianitiy will die, as will all the other thousands of extant religions, as all religions inevitably do, unless we as a species die first. I would prefer that they not be replaced, or be replaced by a religion predicated on scientific fact, based on a reverence for nature, which is God. "I cannot conceive of a personal God who would sit in judgment over creatures of his own creation", said Einstein. Well, neither can I. Our inability to conceive of such a God has little or nothing to do with whether such a God exists. Einstein also said that imagination is more important than knowledge. I also agree with that. But imagination, like the human mind, which Einstien correctly called "weak and feeble", can only do so much. We must do the best we can with it, God, or no God.