It is common knowledge that God is believed to be capable of anything and everything that humans cannot achieve, which is why prayers are a staple in all religions. Since the dawn of civilization, our desires and hopes have been intertwined with God, yet we often see the most successful people putting immense effort into their daily lives. What does this mean? Should one assume that individual effort is everything? Why, then, do not all prayers result in fulfilled desires? Does this imply favoritism from God? Seeking the right answer often leads to assumptions. I do not wish to assume or question how God’s world functions, but I aim to defend God from the blames cast by ordinary individuals, who easily fault God for not preventing disasters, letting enemy forces win, or allowing heinous crimes despite prayers for help.
Blaming God or even the Devil is unwise because it diminishes human significance. My purpose is to inspire individuals to see themselves as integral and primary components of the bigger picture. We should reflect on history to understand the importance of human effort in all of humanity’s advancements. While the environmental factors matter, it is the physical efforts of individuals that make the difference. If you grasp the concept of equal reciprocation, you have attained the wisdom essential for living life comfortably yet responsibly.
So, where do you think you stand as an individual?
We are continuously learning about human and animal rights, gender equality, and various forms of discrimination, all of which are possible because of our evolutionary nature. A look back at history clarifies this. Some may make you believe you are insignificant with nothing to contribute to divine responsibilities. Others claim you are born a sinner regardless of your character and actions. I believe in innocence until proven guilty. Where did this belief start, how did it gain such power, and why does it make humans seem so insignificant? I find no spirituality in this knowledge; instead, it reeks of the politics of power and control.
Why do we evolve? The answer lies in the idea that God manifests and expresses Himself through humanity. To help and reach every victim and learn to manage natural disasters, we must evolve. We already save lives by predicting the paths of natural disasters. A time may come when we can prevent what we predict, but we must vigorously and continuously pursue evolution. Any knowledge that hinders human evolution is politically motivated and not in harmony with humanity or God. Political systems are essential for nations but not for religions. God is the foundation of religions, and we lack concrete knowledge about God, making it inappropriate to use God in political systems. We need clearly written laws based on individual and equal rights.
If you are taught by a religious but politically inclined leader that God holds ultimate power, their claim should be to explain God first. The notion of God as a foreign power makes humans seem inferior. Ants or bees live as social communities, but we are different because each of us can think, act, and manifest a life of choice with free will.
We put significant effort into life to evolve, doing so almost instinctively. We excel and demote ourselves through our own efforts, disregarding external pressures from religious and political orders. The question arises: why do we put so much effort into our evolution? Is it because it is the real natural order by God, spirituality, and humanity?
Our dance with the natural rhythm has a strong reason: we are programmed by nature to evolve. No human knowledge, whether religious or governmental, medical or scientific, is ever complete. They can aid in the evolutionary process but are never final.
You can argue egotistically out of a sense of belonging to your group, but the facts remain. New discoveries bring new problems. We must constantly evolve to address them. For instance, the internet brought comfort but also new types of crimes. Looking at contributors to human evolution, two things persist: they come from all walks of life and are driven by human individuals, not just religious ideologies.
Historically, we have egotistically claimed our knowledge is complete and superior. This tendency persists, despite evolution teaching us otherwise.
How much more do we need to know to change that? We need to know more about ourselves as individuals, and our communities should understand the long-term effects of our education systems. As long as we believe our taught knowledge is final, we will not overcome the boundaries set by our ancestors.
The first change needed in the big picture of life is the status of the individual. If you respect yourself as an important entity connected to humanity and God’s well-being, you will see others as equals and respect them as yourself.
If you believe God is almighty and external, driven by your insecurities, you may seek God’s favor by following religious teachings. My concern is for the vulnerable individual if God does not intervene when needed. Frequent disappointment may lead to a loss of faith in God, which I attribute to the education system.
As an individual, when you join a group—whether a gang, community, race, gender, nation, or religion—you make a deal to abide by the group’s rules in exchange for protection. This deal makes you an inferior, insignificant extension of the group. If we must follow nature, why can we function, survive, and evolve independently as individuals? The answers lie in spirituality, where you are part of God, and God is part of you. Becoming one with God dissolves insecurities from within, freeing you from being merely an extension of human group ideologies.
You have the ability to predict natural events and need not resort to primitive rituals to appease an angry God. Teachings that make you feel insignificant or born a sinner are about political control. It’s time to claim your CEO status.
Just as a seed becomes a majestic tree under the right conditions, God has manifested billions of us to make Him more productive and evolutionary, benefiting both humanity and God simultaneously.
The Description of God
The best analogy for God’s description is the relationship between our body and its cells. Cells, lacking vision, cannot see or understand the body’s function, yet they are aware of their connection to the body and other cells. This limited understanding sometimes leads to autoimmune disorders, where cells attack each other, causing disease. Similarly, we cannot fully perceive God, but we sense our connection to a greater entity. Our environment sustains us until we complete our life span, much like the body sustains its cells.
If God is orchestrating the show, why do we face suffering like starvation, poverty, and natural disasters? Our vulnerability to our environment is akin to our cells’ vulnerability. God has limitations until we reach a higher consciousness of our potential. Our lack of understanding causes pain to God, akin to arthritis in the body.
We must comprehend why humanity and God are intertwined in human progress. Spirituality, religion, or no religion, it is clear that humans are the main physical force behind divine powers. We have evolved from primitive rituals to predicting natural events, understanding that God is not out to spite us.
Most religions portray God as almighty, but this is a human perception. God’s power depends on our unity, physicality, and evolution. If we unite, we can make God almighty, feeding and saving lives, and guiding the world spiritually. Our potential is hindered by politics rooted in insecurities. We are God’s workhorses, and God’s strength depends on humanity’s functioning.
If we entrench our children in traditions and customs of our race, nation, or religion, we hinder progress. Raising children as independent entities related to God and humanity, rather than small groups and ideologies, can create a pathway to a new paradigm.
Belonging to a group fosters inferiority and insecurity, while belonging to God and humanity is liberating. Achieving personal freedom and inner balance allows you to live fearlessly and raise your children the same way. Each of us is an extension of God, with a unique life story and purpose, much like the cells in our body.
Interfering as parents installs our perceptions and insecurities onto our children. Religions often promote enforcing religious education and physical punishment. We should not want our children to be just like us, carrying the baggage of our ancestors. For them to live in peace, we must change our way of thinking. By truly believing in God, we can find inner peace and carve a path for future generations.
If future generations see themselves as part of God and humanity, they will have a stronger sense of self and fewer insecurities. Belonging to a small group is like living in a pond, while embracing the vastness of the ocean or space is liberating. Living and dying for a group may seem brave, but it is driven by emotional attachments and politics.
All human-made ideologies and religions make humans seem worthless, giving all glory to God but, in reality, empowering people who control religions as a business. God cannot survive without humans, just as our cells cannot function without the body.
The question of whether God or humans came first is based on assumptions. Religions claim God created humans, yet fossils and ancient remains suggest otherwise. Human evolution is intertwined with our awareness and knowledge. Our knowledge is incomplete, and we are not finished products. Accepting and embracing our incomplete knowledge allows us to grow and evolve to our potential. Believing our knowledge is complete halts our progress and evolution.
God and the Devil are questionable without humans. As we explore our potential, we will learn more about the unknowns. Our cells depend on nutrients and oxygen supplied by the body, and the body relies on the cells’ integrity. Similarly, God depends on humanity’s physical, mental, psychological, emotional, and spiritual health.
Understanding that God is intertwined with humanity in ways we do not fully comprehend makes all human knowledge about God assumptions. The concept of God and the Devil is deeply entrenched in human populations, influencing our actions labeled as Godly or Devilish.
I strive to understand this but feel I need more evolution or brainpower. Making judgments based on current knowledge limits our progress. All life forms, visible and invisible, are connected in ways we do not fully understand. We are part of a system that is driven by our evolution, which in turn affects the greater whole.
Do not bind yourself to limited ideologies that hinder your evolution. See yourself as an individual with the power to impact humanity and God. Recognize the potential within you, and work towards a life of understanding, growth, and unity with the greater system.
I gave a fair shot at understanding it, but my thinking makes me feel that I need more brainpower or evolution to grasp it fully. I could easily make a judgment like an atheist or a religious fanatic, but the problem is that would be listening to my egotistic assumptions. I still can’t completely understand how our bodies work. Sure, our knowledge is better than before, but I still have questions about the brain. Our brains can’t function unless someone installs data in them. If the brain is like a computer, then who runs the computer? The brain can think, but where do thoughts come from before the process? Is there an unknown entity residing inside the body dictating what our brain should think? Why are we so vulnerable and resilient at the same time? Why do we dance to music so passionately? And yes, why do we kill and die so passionately over religions? Is there a spot that music and religion touch to make us so passionate? When I see girls screaming for rock stars, I don’t understand it but become curious.
Even if I don’t understand dancing to music, I can’t ignore one’s passion for it. However, I feel a strong need to understand religious killings. If that entity within us is responsible for our actions, then why does it not stop the individual from committing crimes? Is there another entity living within us, and do they fight against each other? That means God and the Devil are part of the human individual, or the human is part of those entities. They are not out there as we have been taught, and they are not monsters. They are part of each individual, and yes, we are still the ones who call the shots. That is why I believe we all are CEOs, if not potential CEOs, of our individual lives.
We can seek and pursue the good and run from the bad, as religious knowledge preaches. There is nothing wrong with it until our definitions of good and bad start to change with our evolution. We used to buy and sell human beings; slavery was a way of life. We used to burn witches, kill homosexuals, and human rights were non-existent. Today, even the Pope is changing his tune about human rights. When you are told that God and the Devil are external entities making you do everything, by believing that, you make the individual insignificant and meaningless. He or she can be herded like sheep. Yet, in today’s courts, you are responsible for your actions. You just can’t say that you committed a good or bad act because God or the Devil made you do it. If you follow that path, the whole justice system of governing society falls apart.
If humans look inward and take care of internal affairs by balancing the inner battle and assuming the responsibility of a CEO, they become the third equation, which they are. They would be less fearful and more responsible for their actions. We inherited the responsibility for our actions by receiving free will.
If we start to kill the children of our enemies, whether the dispute is over land or group politics, we are still committing spiritual crimes. These spiritual crimes are not because of God or the Devil; they are because of the individual’s actions under the influences of the politics of the sense of belonging. Yes, it is the individual who is responsible, not only to balance God and the Devil inside but also to balance that sense of belonging with the sense of freedom.
As an individual, it is one’s responsibility to question everything, regardless of how big it is. Whether it’s God, the Devil, or a sense of belonging, they all need to be put in perspective by the individual. If you raise yourself to the level of a CEO, then you will have enough self-respect to conquer even your inner passion, which makes humans live like puppets or extensions of an ideology.
If you deeply believe that you are connected to or a physical part of God, you can create a fearless, resilient, and hopeful life simultaneously. If you perceive God as some entity with a lot of power who can change your life and bring you comfort, and you desire to become just like your God, you are asking to become God yourself. This desire stems from personal insecurities because you think that God has whatever you are lacking. These insecurities are founded on your comparison with others or even with God because of your knowledge that they have more power than you do.
Sure, God is perceived as almighty and capable of doing whatever humans can imagine. This education produces the result of humans not being part of God, thus placing the power somewhere else, beyond the human being’s grasp, so they have to beg for it. If we feel that the power source is someone else or other than us, we separate ourselves from the source.
As soon as we think we are not connected to something greater than us, we could be engulfed by fear and insecurities. Unfortunately, our knowledge has been religious teachings that aim to make humans an insignificant part of the puzzle, especially by teaching that we are not part of God, thus we should fear God. This way, humans have been controlled throughout history. I smell more human politics than real spirituality at work. Today, it is common knowledge that fear-based control does not work.
If you believe that you are part of God, first of all, you will start to gain self-respect, and then you would not live in fear of God. Imagine God as a human body and you as a working cell. You both have a mutual interest in each other, thus you need a peaceful relationship of reciprocation because your very existence depends on the proper functioning of the body, and the body survives because of your functioning.
The concept of prayers, personal hard work, and a strong desire to flourish is in our genes. We are not only evolving as individuals; we are also helping in the evolution of God. Feeling weak comes from disbelief in our connection to the source. It seems natural because of our awareness of our physical realities, but when you venture into spiritual territory, you can see cell reproduction and death as part of life, which should remove fears and enhance the quality of everyday living.
If you lack spirituality in your belief system, you will get attached to anything that provides some kind of security. Group comes first in today’s politics, but the real security is in believing you are a part of not only a spiritual but also a physical part of God.
If you look at our resourceful and well-off societies, you will find discontentment, anxiety, and depression regardless of comfortable living. The question comes to mind: is it because of the level of the belief system? Believing in God and disbelieving in oneself or the other way around?