↩ Homepage of the site 'What to do with your life?' What is God?Warning : don't focus on this question. She is probably the most divisive, but certainly not the most interesting on this site. Let us first note that no one has direct access to God. No one saw him or conversed directly with him. At best, we look for it. The astonishing answer is: modern science, or more precisely the laws it observes in mathematics, physics, etc. From there, the search for God, a fundamental element of the monastic approach, should have been recast following the emergence of the modern scientific method in the 16th or 17th century. More specifically, obedience, one of the three elements of monastic vows, becomes in fact obedience to what is observed at the factual level, because the most direct manifestation of God in the world, and not to dogma, a simple human construction. Be careful though: love is a consequence of controlling the ego. This cannot be the starting point, and in this sense Christ's famous phrase “Love one another as I have loved you” is a sterile injunction from an educational point of view. The question of the existence of GodIf 'What is God?' is a question that may be of some interest, but 'Does God exist?' is a pretty bad question. Pascal's Wager (see Wikipedia article) gives us an example of an answer to a semi-provable question obtained by asking the question incorrectly. Indeed, it assumes that the consequences of reprehensible behavior are positive for the individual during his life, and therefore that the good conduct of our life is ultimately dictated by our belief or not in the existence of God. Go deeperOur proposal is not very far from those of philosophers who equate God with causality.
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