Is there a God who is Omniscient and who is responsible for man's moral behaviour? This article is thought provoking. If I might put in my two-cents in the mix. I think it is arrogant of man to think that he was educated by the whims of the wind and that there is no Creator. I for one believe in a Creator, an organizing principle, God that pervades everything. Whether God created the world or the world created God is a question. But if God was the first person and understood nature in a way we do not at the present time and incrementally God is teaching us the way to know the Source of our beings through Avatars, Gurus, Prophets who appear to be born with knowledge that came directly from the Source. What is consciousness? Has anyone never felt that he or she is more than just this body that is wrapped around our true spiritual selves? The fact that we could think, plan, reflect, dream and skip out of our bodies temporarily mentally, says something, mean's something. Look at the world around us, these solid objects were once a thought, an energy. We are living in a miraculous world where we can see thoughts in solid forms. How can we say there is nothing beyond this shallow life. The Bible talks about many kingdows, The Baha'is talk about many worlds of God.
The Bahá'í writings state that human beings have a "rational soul", and that this provides the species with a unique capacity to recognize God's station and humanity's relationship with its creator. Every human is seen to have a duty to recognize God through His messengers, and to conform to their teachings.[25] Through recognition and obedience, service to humanity and regular prayer and spiritual practice, the Bahá'í writings state that the soul becomes closer to God, the spiritual ideal in Bahá'í belief. When a human dies, the soul passes into the next world, where its spiritual development in the physical world becomes a basis for judgment and advancement in the spiritual world. Heaven and Hell are taught to be spiritual states of nearness or distance from God that describe relationships in this world and the next, and not physical places of reward and punishment achieved after death.[26
Morals Without God? - NYTimes.com
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