Why and For What Purpose? It is my opinion, and that of other Christian theologians, that it serves the purpose of God to remain hidden. His presence must be inferred by using the Kalaam Cosmological Argument, the Argument from Design, the Ontological argument, or any number of others. But these alone will never serve to sway the man who places Will at the center of his autonomous universe–who believes that he alone serves as the master of his own vessel. C.S. Lewis’ Moral Argument held that if we can think of one thing that is always wrong at all times, then this is the proof of an objective morality. But men are mendacious. I could posit that the raping and murder of innocent babies fits the bill, but some moral vagabond will never fail to claim that such acts too are conventional. Self delusion is strong in the untethered mind which finds it preferable to rule in hell than to serve in heaven. Perhaps the simple question I am working on now is the most enlightening: Why is there something rather than nothing? Science tells us that the universe had a beginning at the Big Bang, but the second before matter, time, and space came into being ex nihilo, there was literally nothing—no primordial vacuum—-we cannot even imagine what such a state would appear to be. But one thing we can infer: matter, time, space, and ultimately life bootstrapped into being from a place that was timeless, immaterial, and unchanging. The cause of this creative singularity is of vital importance to we who would answer this eternal why and more fully, solve the teleological riddle — for what purpose?
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:44:23 +0000
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