Concept of God
The initial concept of God as a super being came in the mind of the primitive man from curiosity about natural phenomena like sunrise, sunset, changing of moon phases, days and nights, seasonal changes, solar and lunar eclipses etc. Primitive men also feared destruction caused by thunderstorms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and many other natural disasters.These phenomena were beyond their comprehension and they had no real answer for that. So out of wonders and fright, the idea of a super being was born in their minds and they believed the super being to be their rescuer/protector and every mysterious thing was attributed to him although none knew who he was nor did anyone see him anywhere.
This initial concept of the imaginary super being matured after a long time and modified into religious, beliefs and faiths as follows:
Religious history
Hinduism: (before 2000 B.C.E)
Hinduism was the oldest of all known religions and a polytheistic belief (belief in many gods). It mostly originated in India. Hindus of India worshiped idols for their spiritual satisfaction and have had many gods for almost everything like rainfall, fertility etc. Krishna was supposed to be their religious leader and Bhagavad-Gita their holy book.They have many religious leaders, texts, but the time period and place of origin is not exactly known.
Time of Abraham (1996 – 1821 BC) aged 175 years
After a long period, the idea of monotheism (belief in one God) came and became more prevalent at the time of Abraham.
Abraham was followed by Moses, David, Jesus Christ and Muhammad. Later on, people of almost all religions divided into many groups and sub groups because of differences in their views etc.
Prophet Abraham had two wives (actually three)
1st wife (Sarah) – 2nd son of Abraham (Isaac). 2nd wife (Hagera) – 1st son of Abraham (Ismail). Prophet Mohammad was the descendent of Ismail.
Abraham was known as the patriarch of the Jewish people through his son Issac and Arabs Muslims through his son Ismail. Abraham was the father of three religions, Judaism, christianity and Islam.
There was no proper and permanent concept of one God before Prophet Abraham.
Judaism: (BCE (20th -18th century)
Judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion in the world. Their prophet was Moses and the book was Thora.
Christianity: (1st century)
It is a monotheistic religious belief that there is one God (Jesus Christ) composed of three distinct persons i.e., God, the Father, Jesus Christ, his Son, and the Holy Spirit. They serve distinct purposes but are one as a deity. The first book of christianity was the book of Genesis. Jesus Christ had a virgin birth and death by crucifixion.
Islam: (Period 570 – 632 AD) Islam is a strict monotheistic religion belief that there is one and only one God (Allah). They have faith that every deed /action is by God’s will. The Quran is their holy book and Mohammad was the last prophet.
Beside the main religions, there are roughly 4,200 (belief systems) in the world and in India alone there are 330 millions gods and goddesses whom the Hindus worship.
Note: If you go into the details of all religions you will see that there is a great religious diversity among different religions. Hindu gods are different from the Christian god. Christian god is different from Allah of Muslims. Anyhow, God is the central character of all religions, yet it is the biggest dilemma of all religions. God has not been proved or defined exactly by anyone, but so deeply embedded in the human mind that it will continue to live forever.
Modern age digital society perception
Atheists disbelieve the existence of god. They believe that the creation of the universe is the result of natural laws. There is no god, and there has never been one. That’s it!
Pantheists believe that all is god or god is all or God is everything and everything is God.
Theists believe there is a god, who made and governs all creation and believes his involvement in all affairs. Deists believe there is a god who created the universe, but does not believe his involvement in it anymore. Pan deists believe that there was a god that created the universe, but then he became the universe itself and ceased to exist as a personal god.
Agnostic persons neither believe nor disbelieve in God. The agnostic believes only what is knowledgeable.
Q.Why does mankind refuse to agree collectively on the issue of one God, many Gods or no God at all?
God means different things to different people.
Some people believe that life definitively ends at death-that there will be no god, no after life and no divine plan.
Some people say God is the creation of the human mind to get rid of mental and emotional imbalances, stresses, tensions, worries, so as to get pacification, mental comforts and spiritual satisfaction.
Some people say that God is the only solution to numerous unanswered complicated questions.
Some say, when reasons stop, God starts.
Some people say that the people have created God. As long as people exist God does exist. if no people there will be no God,
Some people visualize God as an image; some say, it is an assumption. Some say, it is a hypothetical figure, but a growing number of people worldwide believe that God is neither an image nor assumption or so, but an intangible reality of all natural things arranged amazingly in definite pattern and perfect order.A vast majority of people believe in God by looking at the amazing design of an harmonious universe so appealing, attractive, well tuned, perfect, and precise in all respects.Scientific minded people believe the presence of Almighty God as a cosmic intelligence, designer, and inconceivable organizer from the discoveries and invention of infinitesimally small atomic particles & to infinitely large structures of the harmonious universe.
Some people think to whom they will be answerable and worship if there is no God. Some say it is only the power of the cosmic creator to control, sustain or drive the entire universe. Anyhow, no one has yet defined God. God is still a big unsolved mystery.People of different religions, communities, societies etc have a different approach to God and I think all are right (no one is wrong) according to their level of thinking.
Image of God
Since the very beginning of human history till today, God has been imagined as the Supreme Being sitting on his throne in heaven high above the blue sky (Arish in Islam) surrounded by all his angels intervening in our day to day lives and controlling us. Moreover, no one has seen God by his eyes, felt by touch, perceived by senses, comprehended by mind, therefore it is difficult to conceive the real image of God further than the form of supernatural being and this image of God still exist and will exist in the minds forever as there is no other way to define him. He is the only one who can give birth, death, good health and sickness, starvation, disasters, happiness, sorrows etc to his creature. Revelations, miracles in the past all happened by his order.
Reality of God:
AS per (Zia God energy theory), god is eternal, immaterial and meta physical. He begets not, nor was He begotten. That’s it!
As per (Zia God energy theory), the creation of entire universe is the result of God energy through atomic particles, but we certainly don,t know how these particles built and maintained such complicated and organized structures and how these intricate systems work from birth to death so perfectly.
let us take examples of some systems in human beings
Look, the heart of the circulatory system pumps the blood to supply oxygen, nutrients and hormones to
all the parts of the body for their proper working and brings back deoxygenated blood and waste materials to the kidneys and digestive system to be removed from the body. Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from your heart whereas Veins bring back deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart. The heart has an electrical system which controls the heart rate, blood pressure and rhythm of the heart beat. With each beat an electrical signal travels which causes the heart to contract and pump blood. The heart pumps 6,000 to 7,000 liters of blood per day. All arteries and veins measure about 100,000 km, which is equivalent to 2.5 rounds of the Earth. The heart beats 100,000 times a day.
Q. How, the four valves made of flesh control the blood flow in one direction through the heart.
Q. How the heart works non stop the whole life.
Q. Who designed the thick walls of arteries (more blood pressure) and thin walls of veins (low blood pressure)?
Q.What about the rest of animals in air, water and on the surface. Each one is different from the other in all respects?
Q. Is it not predestined?
Look, how the nervous system, the brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system which controls and communicates information with all parts of the body through nerves. The brain has about 100 billion small cells called neurons that communicate electrochemically to enable you to think, feel and interact with others. The heart generates enough electricity to power a 20 watt bulb and has an unlimited storage capacity.
Look, the respiratory system, the lungs of the respiratory system connect it with the circulatory system. When you
breathe in, air enters the lungs and oxygen O2 from that air moves to the blood. At the same time, CO2, a waste matter, moves from your blood to the lungs and breathed out. Pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood from your heart to the lungs whereas Pulmonary veins bring oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
Look, the urinary system, the kidneys are in pairs which remove waste products from the body, filter blood and produce urine.
Look, the digestive system, how the enzymes break down the food that we eat into smaller molecules of nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins for the growth and energy of our body and how the kidneys filter waste and excess fluid from the blood.
Look, the skeleton system, how the 206 bones in adults support the body and protect the internal organs like lungs, heart, kidneys etc by making a cage (ribs) and the hard skull protect the sensitive brain and 360 joints facilitate the movement and produce blood cells. Note: For more detail check article skeletal system.
Look, the muscular system, how the muscles allow movement of the body. Nearly all movement of the body is the result of muscle contraction and relaxation like muscles allow a person to move, speak, and chew. They control heartbeat, breathing and digestion etc.
Look, the reproductive system, the fertilization of an egg in the uterus of a woman by the sperm of a man. The
egg comes from the ovary and sperm comes from the testis. The two ovaries alternatively release eggs – one month the left ovary and next month the right one. The egg enters the fallopian tube. In the fallopian there are cilia (hair- like tissues) which help to sweep the fertilized egg into the uterus for nine months. The uterus is 3×2 inches before the pregnancy and has the strongest muscles, which are able to expand and contract to accommodate a growing fetus and help push the baby out during labor.
Note: If the reproductive system was not there, there would be no creature of any form on earth.
Look, the muscles of the uterus and cilia? Is it not the work of al-mighty designer?
Human Senses
Think about the five basic human senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) and how they work. The sense of taste and smell are mostly chemical senses.
How, each eye having about 125 million rods cells and about 6 million cones cells in the retina distinguish over one million of colors. They are photoreceptor cells. tod cells for low light vision and cones for bright light and color vision.
How the hearing makes it possible to engage, listen, laugh, and enjoy many of the things in life.
How, the human nose identifies almost all smells.
How, the human tongue with 2,000 – 8,000 taste buds feel different tastes? The taste buds die off and regenerate every 10-15 days.
How, the skin cells send signals through the nerves to the brain, where these signals are interpreted. It helps us to detect heat and cold to
Human Emotions:
Look, how, the 27 emotions like sexual desire, romance, happiness, joy, fear, horror, interest, sadness, anger, surprise, excitement, admiration, adoration, pain, boredom, calmness, confusion, amusement, relief, satisfaction, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, disgust (strong disapproval), craving (strong desire for something), Nostalgia (homesickness), appreciation, confusion works. Emotions are controlled by the levels of different chemicals in the brain.
Q. How is it possible without a Creator? Q. Is it not predestined?
Note, there are more than +1.5 million known species of animals on earth, out of which some 65,000 are vertebrate animals and 1.05 are insects invertebrate, 85,000 are molluscs and each one is different from the other in all respects, therefore each of the species is named after its individual features and characteristics.
Just imagine! The micro living organisms like bacteria and Archaea are unicellular prokaryotes (no nuclei), while algae, fungi and ameba are unicellular eukaryotes (having nuclei). All unicellular organisms perform all life activities and look on the other hand, the largest organism, like a blue whale weighing 250 tons and measuring 33 meters.
Look, human beings have the 5 senses, 27 emotions and 11 intricate and well organized systems that work properly from birth to death and then imagine about more than 1.5 million + different species of animals on the surface of earth and 380,000+ known species of different plants.
Q. Is it not enough for mankind to believe in the natural Almighty intelligence behind this game of atomic particles.
Proteins synthesis
Look, the DNA replication process occurs before cell division. It is essential so that each daughter cell gets a complete copy of it. Get the help of videos for better understanding as it is a little bit complicated.
The DNA is in the nucleus, but the ribosome in the cytoplasm, where proteins are made. This means the code for the DNA needs to be copied and carried across to the ribosome in the cytoplasm by a molecule called messenger RNA before the protein can be made.
In the nucleus, the enzyme RNA polymerase moves along the DNA and unwinds the DNA at the end of the gene that is going to be
transcribed. The enzyme RNA polymerase in the nucleus binds the RNA nucleotides together making a new RNA strand out of the free bases in the nucleus. The DNA code determines the order in which the free bases are added to the messenger RNA. The whole process in the nucleus is called transcription. In RNA, Uracil pairs with adenine.
The mRNA then travels from the cell nucleus and out into the cytoplasm until it reaches and attaches to the ribosome. In cytoplasm, the transfer RNA molecule carries a specific amino acids base pair to the ribosome with the mRNA inside the ribosome? So the t RNA brings the amino acids and the mRNA provides the information of the exact order the amino acids need to be bonded together to ensure that correct protein is made by adding more amino acids, the amino acid chain becomes longer and longer and eventually the polypeptide chain will form into proteins. This whole process is called translation.
The three base codes are known as codons, so GGT is a Codon for glycine. Three codons on the mRNA code for one amino acid. There are 20 amino acids that make our body’s proteins. Nine of these we need to take in through our diet as our body cannot manufacture it. These are known essential amino acids. Our body can however manufacture non essential amino acids.
Q. How the mRNA and t RNA formed and how the codon and anticodon in a set of three nucleotides produced 20 different types of amino acids?
Q. Do you think it is a coincidence and there is no source or force behind it?
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