Faith comes from an uncompromising indulgence in the realm of the supernatural entity one strongly uphold as superior to him. Everyone is a believer-of God or of no God. The idea of God and the creation ofreligionshave profound impact on humanity. Decades and scores of researches made and the accumulation of knowledge on God amazes me the most considering the fact that, the knowledge we have gained thus far is not enough to understand our supreme God. God is a matter of great concern for humanity and most religions centres around God.
The fundamentals of life such as truth, honesty, bravery, love and forgiveness are often submerged in the ocean of religions and Gods of our creation. The relevance of such fundamentals finds lesser platform (or no platform) even to ignite a little spark of its genuineness and importance. The true God that we often talk about have become an alien entity by the life style we so gracefully embraced and choose do identify with. The separation from the true and supreme God is manifested in the way we do and believe of which our reality speaks volume.
In the world of differences, there are thousands if not millions avowing non existence of God. There are multitude who firmly acknowledges God’s existencebutchoosing to defy it. Yet again, there are religions in which God is a silent element.
We have the luxury of choices in terms of religions and Gods constitutional, but the true spirit of secularism in reality is a rallying cry. The world we live in and the waves of circumstances we witness in our daily living triggers me to ponder over certain premiseon our world view of God.
1. Is God a concept and nothing more? Even if so, at our liberty, what would be the fundamental basis of such definition(s)? Would it be enough to follow certain approaches like the Essentialist , Reductionist, and /or the Symbolic orientation in expressing our ideas in defining God? Do we need to define God at all?
2. Is God just a idea? Is God a spirit that do not exist? Do we fix God in a virtual world or category? Is God only a supernatural transcendental entity to be feared? Are we worshiping God of our creation? Is God only a speculation? Is God only a narrative substance?
The underlying truth of fixation of God in our individual and societal system can be seen only as an image of negligence and for which we do not see the manifestation of God in our conduct. Now the bottom line is, if we are so keen and anxiously conscious about God, why not give Him His proper place in our life. Or have we really understood God? To which God or what God are we obliged do? Is it the true and the supreme God or the God (s) of our own creation? If we are so clean and clear about God then, why do we need to hide Him behind multiple corruptions, immoralities and vices? Our society is so corrupted that even in the midst of God it feels like we are looking for the missing Christ.
N. Yanpothung Ezung Bailey Baptist College Wokha Nagaland
