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Do you believe in God?
If by God we imply a single personality or a trinity, some sort of supernatural man, a judge of our actions and thoughts, I don't believe in that being. On the other hand, if by God we mean a moral or mental purpose in the universe, I certainly believe in Him. Regarding the problem of personal immortal-ity, which Unamuno and other writers have connected to the notion of God, I don't believe in it, nor do I desire to be personally immortal.
And why do you believe in God in this way?
I believe intuitively and, besides, it would be despairing not to believe. If we presume there is a perfect and omnipotent being at the beginning of universal history, and we presume also that he created the world, then we cannot understand why pain and evil exist. If we assume, on the other hand, a God who is in the process of creation as the cosmos or our individual destiny evolves, in that particular form we can believe in Him, that is, as an evolving passage toward perfectibility.
- Jorge Luis Borges
If by God we imply a single personality or a trinity, some sort of supernatural man, a judge of our actions and thoughts, I don't believe in that being. On the other hand, if by God we mean a moral or mental purpose in the universe, I certainly believe in Him. Regarding the problem of personal immortal-ity, which Unamuno and other writers have connected to the notion of God, I don't believe in it, nor do I desire to be personally immortal.
And why do you believe in God in this way?
I believe intuitively and, besides, it would be despairing not to believe. If we presume there is a perfect and omnipotent being at the beginning of universal history, and we presume also that he created the world, then we cannot understand why pain and evil exist. If we assume, on the other hand, a God who is in the process of creation as the cosmos or our individual destiny evolves, in that particular form we can believe in Him, that is, as an evolving passage toward perfectibility.
- Jorge Luis Borges