I’m writing a series of posts explaining why I think God exists.
This is the 4th piece of evidence.
This one requires imagination.
Imagine a gigantic building with a lot of rooms.
Imagine a mansion, or a school, or a fancy hotel.
Got it?
Imagine people wandering around inside the building.
People making sandwiches in the kitchen.
People sitting on furniture.
People using the gym equipment.
People falling in love, getting married.
People having arguments about stuff.
People playing shuffle board and checkers.
Put yourself in the building with those people and wander around a bit.
Listen in on their conversations.
I’ll wait.
…keep listening…
…keep listening…
Did anyone mention the hermit that lives in the basement?
He’s got a tent setup in the corner.
He works on the plumbing at night after everyone goes home.
Nobody mentioned him?
Of course not.
There is no reason your imaginary people would suspect a hermit lives in the basement.
But now that I’ve revealed him to you, I bet your people will talk about him a lot.
“I’ve never seen him, but there is a tent in the basement.”
“The plumbing is always in working order too.”
Here’s the important part…
Your people couldn’t know about the hermit unless I revealed him to them.
Now…
Imagine a whole planet filled with people.
Imagine yourself wandering among them, listening to their conversations.
…keep listening…
Did anyone mention a “God” that lives off-planet?
This “God” keeps life working on the planet.
Yes?
People mentioned “God”?
Wow!
Do you see the evidence?
Your people couldn’t know about God unless somebody revealed Him to them.
God is a hermit in the basement that we shouldn’t even suspect exists.
We should accept what we experience at face value.
The plumbing works great, that’s just the way it is.
Yet, we know about God.
Somehow, we’ve heard about the hermit in the basement.
The only way this is possible, is if the hermit let us know He’s there.
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Once again, you don’t have any evidence whatsoever. We will use your example. Hermit in the basement.
There MAY be a hermit in the basement, there may not be. Merely suggesting that there is a hermit living in the basement is not evidence that there IS a hermit living in the basement.
I’ll say this again: SUGGESTING THERE IS A HERMIT IN THE BASEMENT IS NOT EVIDENCE THAT THERE IS A HERMIT IN THE BASEMENT.
All you have done is suggested there is a god. And once again, we’re all waiting for your evidence. I won’t hold my breath
You don’t seem to understand the evidence. You should respond to the point I made instead of setting up a straw man.
That’s actually a really unique and interesting point there. I really like it 🙂
No feelings or emotion required, simply a disbelief in something that is evidenced to not exist.
Steve claimed to have evidence that the hermit does not exist… Anyone want to ask him what the evidence is?
Thanks for telling us!
Of course, there were some people who argued dogmatically that the hermit story was a myth, and the pipes, the building, the people, everything just magically came into being on its own. The plumbing just works. There is no hermit, no architect, no reason for any of its continuing existence. It just is. And then they mock and make fun of everyone else who actually thinks someone might’ve put the building, the plumbing, even the people there in the first place. Their reasoning is, there’s no evidence. And they say this with a straight face. I think there’s a term for this psychological condition.
My point is that we can’t even know there is a hermit to deny. There is no reason to create the myth when everything “just works”. Something outside nature had to introduce itself to us. We’d never have known to look for it otherwise.
Exactly. I used to have a job like that as a radio engineer (a long time ago). No one paid any attention to my existence until something stopped working. It’s funny, though, they didn’t blame me for the breakdown (it wasn’t called an “act of Mel” LOL!). The just asked me to fix it. And I did.
It just seems to me like these deniers are basing their disbelief on feelings and emotions instead of the ubiquitous truth of their own continuing existence. Just a thought.
I like this very much. Although I must say God is not quite a hermit. More like the Hound of Heaven banging loudly on the pipes trying to get our attention. I tend to pay attention to strange noises in old buildings, but most of us are more like, “Did you hear that? Nope. Didn’t hear a thing. If Someone was actually making that noise it might be really scary….”
CS Lewis captured this idea too, about how it’s all fun and games to to be searching for God until one realizes oh dear, He may have now found us, too. Nietzsche too spoke of staring into the abyss and realizing it’s actually staring back at you. I’m just saying, basements can be really scary and so many people just pretend there’s no hermit living down there. What if He’s not just benevolently fixing our pipes? Like maybe He actually wants you to invite Him to tea or something…?
Ack, it seems as if we’ve now gone and left God alone in the basement living in a tent! That’s terribly impolite.
I sometimes wonder in my thought why with the abundance evidence around the world people still want to doubt the existence of God. People prefer to call God a thing or politely the universe. Anyway the beauty of God’s love towards his people’s
It truly is amazing that He puts up with our crap.
Romans 8:17-22 Says that the Hermit is revealed to everyone. The ones who deny the Hermit exists, keep the truth away from themselves in unrighteousness. EVERYONE is without excuse. We all know the Hermit is there.
This is a good one. I hope the hermit doesn’t send his son up to tell them to stop messing up the plumbing.