Many individuals have lost confidence in God and religion in this day and age. This prophecy applies to our time:
When the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?
-Luke 18:8
Those who haven’t lost faith should lend a helping hand to those who have. This Invitation is such an effort. What role does God play in human life? Does life make any sense without God? To believe in an invisible Creator, we need visible proof. We can’t force our minds to believe in a Being we cannot see.
What Do Scientists Say?
Scientists’ views on God are as diverse as anyone else’s. Some are uninterested in God, while others believe in Him as firmly as they believe in the sun. What’s the deal with the disparity? In his book, “Can a Smart Person Believe in God?” a scientist with three PhDs in science, an exceptionally rare achievement among academics, responds to this topic. He claims that a high SQ, not a high IQ, is the most important criterion for knowing or believing in God. SQ stands for Spiritual Quotient while IQ is for Intelligence Quotient. Consider the following scenario to understand the function of SQ in knowing God. All objects on Earth receive the same amount of sunlight. However, each item draws and reflects light in its own unique way. Every day, we encounter a diverse range of people, some with hearts as pure and gleaming as a polished mirror, and others with hearts as rough and unpolished as a rough stone. Do such a wide range of people respond to God in the same way? Both the physical and spiritual worlds are very similar. A heart that isn’t as pure and polished as a mirror won’t be able to receive and reflect God’s Light. This statement’s precise message is as follows:
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
-Matthew 5:8
Did Jesus say, “Blessed are the smart folks with a high IQ”? No, He favored people who had a high SQ.
Are you not picky about who you invite to your banquet? This is really clear. Why would God invite unfit souls to His banquet—souls who would live in His “many mansions” in heaven? His dwellings are solely for people that have a clean heart.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
-John 14:2
God wants to receive guests who have pure hearts, free of contaminants such as pride, hypocrisy, and a variety of other sins. The highest honor that heaven can bestow on people is to know and love God. Should this distinction be bestowed on every unsuitable and unclean soul?
Which would you prefer: a clean and basic home or a filthy and stench-filled home with expensive and gorgeous furniture? What about God, for example? Would He even come close to an egotistical scientist who places a higher value on the quality of the alcohol he drinks than on the quality of his own spirit? Would He invite drunkards to His banquet who would rather drink a glass of wine that dulls their mind than drink the living streams that fascinate and intoxicate their soul? Who did Jesus bless as pure-hearted disciples? Were they not the humblest of individuals who liked to help the poor? What was the reaction of individuals with inflated egos to Him? How does the human heart draw God’s Light in? It works in the same way that a mirror does; It must turn toward God’s Light and be free of anything that diminishes its sensitivity to that Light.
If you’ve heard that scientists don’t believe in God, check out another book by a notable scientist, The Fingerprints of God. Numerous variables have worked in perfect harmony to make life on Earth conceivable, according to the book, which names and explains them. Even a minor modification in any of those elements would have rendered human life impossibly difficult.
What does Einstein, widely regarded as the greatest scientist of all time, have to say about the Supreme Spirit at the heart of all creation:
Everyone who is serious about science becomes convinced that a Spirit is manifest in the Law of the Universe—a Spirit immensely superior to man’s, and one in front of which we, with our greatest powers, must be humbled.
Survival of the Soul
Another book, published by another scientist, this time a brain specialist, shows God’s presence in a completely new way: by demonstrating the soul’s survival after physical death. Is it possible to have an afterlife without God? Its author went through a process known as “clinical death.” He had no life, no activity in his brain, but he lived life to the fullest. He awoke after around 20 minutes to tell the world that even with no activity in his brain, he could think and understand as if he were completely alive. While he appeared to be dying, he had greater sense and consciousness than he had ever had before. He felt like a caged bird who has been set free. Consider the difference between living in a cramped room and soaring through the skies.
Could a brain with no activity discover the afterlife, be able to recollect its experience, and describe the secrets of that life to the rest of the world in great detail? No, it was his soul, not his brain, that performed all of these miracles.
He knew better than anybody else the state of his brain, which showed no signs of life, as a physician who specialized in brain functioning. How can a brain that is dead, outperform a brain that is alive? You cannot read his work and not believe in the soul’s survival beyond bodily death. I ask once again can there be an afterlife without God?
In the dream world, pondering the soul’s complexities is the finest approach to getting to know it. The soul manifests its freedom from the body in the dream world. It can see with closed eyes and speak with a closed mouth. While the body is bound to the bed, the soul soars through the air like a bird. It dismantles both spatial and temporal barriers. The future is often predicted through dreams, dreams that guide and protect dreamers from hazards yet unknown. Anyone who dreams obtains proof of his or her soul’s existence and survival on a regular basis.