Proof God Exists- By William Samuel

My simple proof that God exists
William Samuel (1987)

EQUATION

Basic to a final knowledge of anything and everything is the necessary belief in God. I have a simple Proof of God for myself that might be meaningful to others. (Many books have been written on this subject but none have ever proven the existence of God beyond all the questions a philosopher might pose. The full belief in God is a marvelous EVENT which happens only rarely for men. Perhaps the event is that fabled experience called Illumination. In any event, when a person finally accepts the belief of God, then Whatever-God-is rushes into the affairs of that one to prove Godself to him.)

Here is my argument:

Behind everything I can see, hear, feel, smell or think about there is Something More. In the end, that Something More is called God, Tao, the Ineffable, but no name is worthy of It-- because a name limits It and It is beyond limits.

Then, why don't we know of the Something More? Why can't people be really certain that God exists? How can any of us be certain God exists? By observation and reason.

Behind everything there is an Equation. The equation is plainly evident if one will look at nature and simply acknowledge the marvels there. See what synergism exists in nature when oxygen and hydrogen come together to form water! See the marvel of male and female.

I see a tree. Beyond the tree I see is the house one can build from the tree. Beyond the tree I see is the cellulose the chemist can see. Beyond the tree I see is the atom of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and on and on.

I see an action of man. Behind the action is the motive for the act. Behind the motive is the silent call of genetics which the man has no conscious knowledge of. Beyond and behind everything one can see, hear, feel, touch, smell or in any way be conscious of, there is inevitably Something More.

Now, if this is true for all tangible thoughts, ideas, sights and sounds--of which we can each see hundreds of billions during a life time--isn't it true also for the one factor of ourselves which we deem to be the most certain of all things that exist, this very Awareness of myself/ yourself which rattles forth with words, trying to make them make sense? Of all the things in the world, the one thing one can be most certain of is the fact of this Awareness presently here individually as oneself. I can't be sure that there is an awareness there where you are, but I can be certain there is one here as myself, else I wouldn't be living. As a matter of fact, this awareness IS what I make reference to when I say "life." So, this Awareness is the most precious thing I have, or am. It is the most certain KNOWING (and known) thing of myself.

Now, if everything ELSE proves to have Something More behind and beyond it, isn't it merely reasonable to believe (just on faith alone!) that there is Something Else, Something More, being this very Awareness I am, the one thing of all I can be most certain exists? If I cannot look at a single thing nor think of a thing that doesn't have "something more" behind it simultaneously, isn't it reasonable to assume there is "something more" to life than this sense of life I call myself?

So, my argument that God exists is a simple and mathematical rule of consistency and constancy. In order to have Life without God, I must believe this prior principle of constancy breaks down and ceases to exist in no other place except here as myself. And I don't believe that is so because it isn't reasonable. Especially since, when I did personally "let go" and decided that God DOES exist, my affairs became so much better in the world. My experience began to run to another rhythm than those the ordinary world heeds. My world became miraculous and the Something Else, which I call God, rushed into this Awareness to prove Its existence to me.

Ah so. I've never seen anyone in my experience who, when they did the same, didn't have the same miraculousness come into their affairs. The statement "Prove me now herewith" has proven to be so for me and many others.

The Equation is a delicate balance to which nothing can be added or subtracted without altering the balance. In nature we see how this is true, so why isn't it true here and now where we sit pondering these ideas of the existence of God?

While I cannot see God, I can see how the Equation holds everything in delicate balance. There should be no mystery about this because one can't see the principle of arithmetic either, but one can see the numerals which are regulated and tended in perfect harmony and balance by the principle. One can't see the principle of music, but that principle contains and precedes every melody that has ever been sounded, or ever will be sounded.

The Equation can be perceived by the balances we see within the physical body as well. We know when we eat too much, drink too much or act immoderately in any direction. We know when the balance has been disturbed because the Something More within us tells us. There is an interface between the Something More and us. We feel it and call it the Heart. We know it is within us--within the body, it seems, but within the Awareness of us most certainly.

Maybe I should patch this up and send it to Loretta, sweet Loretta of San Francisco. (William Samuel--- Woodsong Alabama, 1987)

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