An Invitation to Peace

God… and Us
An Invitation to Peace
Exploring the questions of where we have come from and where we’re
going brings us to another very important question: Why are we here?
From the precision with which the whole of the universe has been
exquisitely structured – of which we are a tiny speck – and the intricate
design that governs everything down to the minutest atom, it is evident
that there must be a purpose to it all. Even scientists who don’t believe
in God cannot deny that there is an amazing order to the way
everything in existence is orchestrated (which is why they’re able to
describe ‘systems’ and their ‘laws’), and that everything they’ve looked
at fulfils a function, and so has a purpose. Purpose is evident through
design; everything we’ve ever been able to know of has some kind of
meaning. How can it be conceivable, then, that the human being who
has been designed to throw off ignorance and to grasp some of these
meanings through the intellect could himself have no purpose and no
meaning?
We are by nature rational beings and feel a need to understand things.
Of all creatures on this planet, man alone has been endowed with the
faculty of thinking and reasoning. Slow-moving, puny and defenceless
though we might be, thanks to this one redeeming factor of ours, the
human mind, we are kings of the animal world. Man has been able to
tap into the earth’s resources and use them to his advantage like no
other. We have been given the gifts of learning and understanding, the
ability to observe and contemplate, and the power to plan and
harness.
And yet we are completely helpless against the forces of nature; we are
unable to control our own fate, let alone the workings of nature. We
are placed at a distance from the sun that is crucial to our existence, we
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