Um tríptico sobre Deus

2) Brain

I’ve always admired myself with this paradox. Was God that created the brain and therefore gave us the possibility to reflect him, or was the brain that created God? Well, beginning with the fact that I have never felt comfortable with the idea that God had created a brain capable of doubting its own creator, one might say that it’s one more of those tricky tests that god sowed in his bumping course.

Something like the eternal doubt on why did god gave the capacity to Eva to disobey his own rules. The question of “free will” which was an integral part of most debates among theologians. I don’t know enough about this controversy to say how and why did it end; but this solution pointed a way out for the basic question: why is the world created according to God’s will and yet man doesn’t act according to his spirit? Because man is free to choose; therefore God only shows the way, the decision to take it or not is up to you. This tendency was incredibly magnified by Protestants and the possibility of self-examination.

Still, this is stained by the old aporia on which came first: God or the Universe? I’ve never seen a convincing explanation for this from religious people or theologians. Lately, some try to conflate the theory of the big bang with this. As the big bang prevent us to discover a primum mobile and so we have to accept that from nothing can come something (a lot of stuff, by the way), so God can be the nothing that had created the everything. In fact, this poses the question of reality and existence. They are not the same. If we accept that things exist regardless of what we think of them then the question if God was the prime creator becomes irrelevant.