Does God Exist, or Have We Misunderstood God?
Does God really exist? Not the answer “I believe, so God exists” — few people have actually examined the question for themselves.
For the past two thousand years, humanity’s faith has largely pointed toward one shape of God: a creator who spoke light into being with a single word, shaped a man out of clay, and took a rib from that man to make a woman. The medieval church shaped entire eras around this faith, and through Rome, imperialism, and the spread of Western civilization after the Industrial Revolution, this belief reached most of the earth. Even today, the explanation comes back the same way: “God exists because religion exists, and religion’s existence is itself proof of God.”
But 참성경 makes an unexpected claim right at this point.
“Therefore, the saying that people were made by moulding clay is 마귀 speaking empty words to deceive foolish people. For that reason, we humans are not creatures created by moulding clay.” — DOS 7:3-4
No word has ever conjured light out of nothing, and no handful of clay has ever produced a single eyeball or a strand of hair, let alone a living person. So the atheist’s claim deserves a second look too — what they are rejecting may be “the God who supposedly created this way,” not the idea of God itself.
참성경 locates God somewhere else entirely. The matter that makes up the universe is built of molecules, molecules of atoms, and atoms of a nucleus with electrons endlessly circling it. Few scientists have ever asked why the electron keeps circling. 참성경 answers:
“Therefore, 하나님, who is the source of life, exists as a neutron, and the phenomenon of negative electrons circling around the neutron is called an atom, isn’t it? So, since each individual atom gathers to form a molecule, and molecules gather to form matter, if one strictly considers it, matter itself is precisely a coexistent entity of the spirit of 하나님 and the spirit of 마귀. Since the spirit of 하나님 and the spirit of 마귀 combine to form matter, the reason why all things in this world are alive is precisely because the spirit of 하나님 is present, life exists.” — IFL 1:17-19
Inside the smallest unit of matter, life is already present — and the whole universe made of that matter is, in effect, one single living being: God.
If God is a spiritual being, then spirit is a person’s mind. If the mind is a person’s master, and that mind is divine, the conclusion follows that the master is divine — a person is God.
“이 사람 explains scientifically that humans are undoubtedly divine, right? Since it was said that a person’s mind is spirit, if the mind itself is spirit, then spirit itself is divine, isn’t it? … Since the divine is the master, are humans divine, or not divine? Humans are undoubtedly divine, aren’t they?” — SAK 2:23-34
Strange as it may sound, the Bible says the same thing.
“Therefore, since the spirit of 하나님, 이제 그대로, speaks directly through the mouth of 이 사람, how could the spirit of 하나님 say, ‘All things in this world are divine,’ without speaking? … Also, in Psalm 82:6, it says, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’” — WIB 6:1-5
Humanity has built civilizations in the name of serving God, yet in worshipping unseen idols, we may have mistreated the real God all along — this earth, and people themselves. Once the old misunderstanding about God is cleared away, two things open up at once: the pride of being a child of 하나님/부처님, and the ability to see everything visible as 하나님/부처님.
