Deciphering Metaphysics.
Part 1. Is There a God?
Dr Ong Hean Tatt, Ph.D.. 1st January 2020.

Deciphering major metaphysic issues scholars think about.
based on science and ancient texts!

The Profound Issues

This series of expositions aim at answering the alike much inter related issues which often plague the minds of people:

• Is there a God?
• "Finally Science Found the Immortal Soul and God". Amazing Scientific Proof that Man has an Immortal Soul!
• What is the Purpose of Life?
• What is the Purpose of Life? Dilemma of Suffering
• What will happen when a person dies?
• What is Enlightenment?

These issues can be answered in logical even scientific ways and proofs. We will try to avoid all those wishy washy pedantic arguments which lead nowhere.

• When you tell an anxious person, "Relax", that phrase "Relax" will lead to another question "How to relax" and will cause even more confusion. Likewise, some "gurus" tell people "just to live" and such an answer will also be useless.

In each issue, there is a need to find out the practical and delightful applications of the issue.

Here, we will deal with the first question "Is there a God?"

Do Not Slander the Sages who Believe

You have heard them, betraying their little knowledge, expounding in condescending ways that there is no God.

• Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent. Proverbs 17:28

They also have false views that sages like the Lord Buddha did not believe in God. Buddha stated in the Dhammapada:

• "Even the Gods emulate those who are awakened. Established in meditation, they live in freedom, at peace".
  "Let us live in joy, never hoarding things among those who hoard. Let us live in growing joy like the bright Gods."
  "But who can blame those who are pure, wise, good and meditative? They shine like a coin of pure gold. Even the Gods praise them, even Brahma, the creator".

These verses show that the Lord Buddha accepted the devas, higher Mahadeva gods like Brahma as the Creator. Does not this stream of thinking eventually lead to God? You may say that those who say Buddha did not believe in God had blasphemed!

• Sometimes, these skeptics insinuate naiveté in the ancient sages. Such insinuations reduce the sacredness of the ancient texts of the sages. Then the false "gurus" would try to take their places, becoming false "gurus" issuing forth vague guidelines of Life".

If you read carefully the ancient scared texts, you will find that the ancient sages invariably and reverently believe in a God, unlike modern self-professed "sages". The ancient sages would sing praises of various virtues of the gods and God who would be held up as models to help guide devotees into practical aspects of living. These modern self-professed "sages" never understand the ancient sages. Many of these modern self-professed "sages" hardly study the ancient texts and may even cooked up false stories about what the ancient sages did and said.

Distortions in Ideas of What is God

A person like Richard Dawkins, purportedly interested in buying a letter written in 1952 to the Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind, who had sent him his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call To Revolt, claimed that Einstein did not mince his words.

• "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

Einstein, due respect to him, like many Christians, did not seriously study the Holy Bible. Like those who hardly read and study their own ancient sacred texts, Einstein had misunderstood what the sacred texts really say.

Here, we want to point out that people need to understand better what Einstein did believe in God (Scotty Hendricks. 19 September, 2017. Did Einstein Pray? What the Great Genius Thought about God. https://bigthink.com › did-einstein-pray-what-the-great-genius-thought-ab.):

• Dear Phyllis,
  I will attempt to reply to your question as simply as I can. Here is my answer: Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.
  However, we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith. Such belief remains widespread even with the current achievements in science.
  But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
  With cordial greetings,
  your A. Einstein

So, Einstein believed in God, but his definition of God is a pantheistic Spinozan type, not the typical layman transcendental type. What should be realised is that Einstein, and a number of other scientists, believed that science shows there is an Intelligence in the universe and this proves the existence of a pantheistic Spinozan God! But not the typical laymen "Omnipotent God".

Many are lying when they say that science has no place for God. Even those "gurus" who proclaim they do not believe in God, they are fooling themselves.

As a scientist, I am convinced by science. I believe in God but I do not believe that God is omnipotent. "Omnipotent" is a nonsensical term, like "Can God do everything?. So can God create a knot he cannot untie?" It is useless testimony from people like Bertrand Russell who argued that the existence of suffering is proof that there is no God. At the most, such an argument may merely show God is not omnipotent. To respectively believe in God you have to throw away nonsensical terms like "Omnipotent".

• My grandfather was a medical doctor. The patient trusted him, but he was given a lethal dose of phosphate and died. My grandfather had made a mistake in estimating the injection dose. We should always respect the doctors, and the rare incidences of errors should not reduce our respect.

The Hindu Rigveda calls this pantheistic God "Purusa" the Cosmic Being, to whom we all will return when we die. The later Upanishads call him "Brahman" the Formless One. This Purusa or Brahman is beyond all those who are usually termed gods, who would be pictured as glorified human beings, may be with wings or "horns".

• I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High. Psalms 82:6

  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? John 10:34

Thus, the Hindu Vedas say: It is Purusa who will come to the death bed as Yama God of Death to benevolently take the Soul home. You are made of God matter and will have served your Purpose in Life and return home to God one day.

This Purusa the Fomrless God is what Einstein believed as a pantheistic Spinozan God. Biblical scholars do not realise that the Holy Bible actually teaches such a a Formless pantheistic Spinozan God.

The Lord Buddha in his Kalachakra Tantra defined this Formless Being as Purusa manifested as Avalokitesvera the Thousand Arms.

God is not necessarily of the type you think.

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