The logical argument for existence of god:
First reason: the order
It is possible to proof that it is endlessly unlikely (and even in many ways) to be a coincidence that our universes have the next 4 qualities in regard to the laws of physics and logic:
1. it’s not chaos or chaotic, it has laws (the laws of physics and logic).
2. Those laws work anywhere in the universe, exactly in the same way,
3. They work all the time, for billions of years.
4. All the laws of physics, even though there really are allot of them fit together to create a world that make sense, even though some of them are long and/or complicated.
5. it’s in a way that we (or some other kind of intelligent way of life) can survive in it, and even relatively easily if we do things right.
Examples:


Or a world with laws, but just not meant for us, like: too hot, too cold, too small objects. Only one big object which would have been a black hole, so it would stay like that.
things moving too fast, laws of physics that are not constant, no electricity(the brain works on electricity), no fluids, no water, no gas, no solid, not enough useful materials, no chemical energy, no nuclear energy (this means no light and heat from the sun), no light, no and so on...
There are also things that are not necessary for us, but are good like fire magnetism (it protects as from many harmful things), fuels, clouds, and also the strength of gravity in proportion to mass, fit our needs well, we are not too heavy, even though the earth is very big, and many other facts...
Example for endlessness:

If all the country was covered with dots like this, and every one of this dots represented something completely different, than together they would still be nothing in amount in comparison to endlessness.
But it might help you understand the idea of endlessness.
If this is not a coincident, then there could be only 2 ways to explain this, either the laws of physics where legislated so that they will create a place where intelligent life can evolve an survive and flourish in. in that case he that made the laws of physics can be called GOD, because he designed our universe, and maybe others.
or that it’s not a coincident that the laws of physics are so that they will create a place where intelligent life can evolve an survive and flourish in, because an endless number of different things/universes/realities/places also exist in an active way somewhere, each with different laws, and also an endless amount of them with no rules, but with different things, and an endless amount that are just one big thing, with or without rules or a definition of what it is. And so in that case, it is not so unlikely that our universe with the laws of physics also exist.
But the second explanation doesn't make sense without GOD, because it means that together, all of those things/universes/realities/places contain everything, imaginable or not.
Because it’s an endless number, of different from each other things that can be anything, because some of them don't obey any rules, and some obey rules, but those rules can be anything, because they are also different from universe to universe. So together they would have contained everything, imaginable or not.
So, There would have been also things that can come here, or affect us here, because this is also in the category of everything, imaginable or not.
And even if there was something trying to stop them, for some reason that is not GOD; there would have been also things that are so, that they are able to go through or over or under or around that thing.
Or that they are so that this thing can’t stop them, or they can disappear in one side of it and appear on the other, or they can affect things here from where they are, and all kind of things like that, whatever. You can definitely see, that there are many things and ways and so on, in that category everything, imaginable or not.

Example: a wall won’t help you against something like this, because maybe it can just go through it like it wasn't there, or maybe it can be in more than one place at the same time, so it doesn't even care about the wall and things like that...
Because it just so happens, that is how that thing is.
Second reason: Jesus Christ.
Why would CHRIST choose to not have any kind of personal life? That is no sexual activity, even mentally, and never doing anything because that’s what he feels like doing.
And instead spend his entire life doing the will of GOD, refraining from sin, suffering torture and humiliation, and then dying by crucifixion.
All of this without a bit of doubt or hesitation.
And how is it that every quote of him contains more wisdom than anything anyone else ever said? Even though he said many of those quotes without having more than some minutes or seconds to think.
And why did 12 man volunteer to follow him everywhere all day long for many years Instead of living there lives? And some of them were also killed.
And why would hundreds or thousands of people believe him?
Remember there was none of the technology you know today, the only means of communication was talking and writing by hand.
And it was in a small area, in a small land.
Why all of this unless he was really the son of god? (What this means can be interpreted in more than one way, but he was directly related to god).
He didn't do it for personal gain, that's for sure, because he gained nothing, but lost everything.
so what else can be possible?, the only other option is that he was one of the most mentally ill man that ever lived, and it somehow made him believe he was the son of god.
but it's possible to see he was not an incredibly mentally ill man, because he was in great mental condition and was organised enough to do all this trips and survive even though he didn’t have any job or money, at a much tougher time in history.
He was always reasonable, sharp minded, clever, and objective, he was able to sympathise with other people, connected to reality, and he was fearless and confident. Doesn’t sound like crazy to me.
If there is any mental illness that can make someone believe he is the son of god, than it's what is called grandiose delusional disorder.
Grandiose delusions or delusions of grandeur are principally a subtype of delusional disorder but could possibly feature as a symptom of schizophrenia and manic episodes of bipolar disorder.
someone suffering from an extreme delusional disorder should experience very severe anxiety called paranoia, Christ was exactly the opposite of that, he was always reasonable and apparently fearless.
He was not schizophrenic, because these people contradict themselves all the time, or at least allot, and he did not do that.
He was not suffering from manic episodes of bipolar disorder, because he did not believe he was the son of god in some week or month of his life, but all of his life.
Also Mania is generally characterized by a distinct period of an elevated, expansive, or irritable mood state. People commonly experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep. A person's speech may be pressured, with thoughts experienced as racing. Attention span is low and a person in a manic state may be easily distracted. Judgment may become impaired; sufferers may go on spending sprees or engage in behavior that is quite abnormal for them. They may indulge in substance abuse, particularly alcohol or other depressants, cocaine or other stimulants, or sleeping pills. Their behavior may become aggressive, intolerant or intrusive. People may feel out of control or unstoppable. People may feel they have been "chosen," are "on a special mission," or other grandiose or delusional ideas. Sexual drive may increase. At more extreme phases of bipolar I, a person in a manic state can begin to experience psychosis, or a break with reality, where thinking is affected along with mood. Many people in a manic state experience severe anxiety and are very irritable (to the point of rage), while others are euphoric and grandiose.
As you know Christ was not like that, except from feeling he is on a special mission, but that doesn’t count, because that's why i wrote this to begin with.
There are also many other less significant reasons to believe in god, for example the solar eclipse, but that is not the point of this article.
The logical argument for lack of existence of god:
God is also endlessly unlikely to be a coincident or at least incredibly unlikely... so how was he created? And if someone created him, then how was he created and so on.
Part 1 of the theory
The theory is that our reality is made of at list 2 internal elements, and at list one internal principal. The first element is the one that experience changes. Things that are of the first element are:
Matter, energy, time, space, light, antimatter, and probably some other things.
The other element is the one that is not changing. Things that are of the second element need to be in a specific way to be themselves.
Things that are of the second element are:
Possibilities, concepts, definitions, rules/laws, and also ideas and emotions, but not what we fill; the meaning of them. And some other things that also need to be in a specific way to be themselves.
the one principle is, that things which are of the first element constantly experience changes according to the meaning of specific things that are of the second element, that can do that, at that specific situation.
For example:
You can break a chair, right. But you can't break the idea of a chair, or the possibility of something that a human can seat on that is not very much bigger than a human. It’s just not something changeable in my opinion.
Ideas and other things of the second element can affect things from the first one like the idea that you need to wake up tomorrow can cause a change in that that you will put an alarm, to wake up.
And the law of gravity pulls objects together and all the other laws of physics also work all the time to make things happen to first element things. But they are of the second element, because they are laws, they don't have weight or size or shape or color or speed, and so on...

But not all the things from the second element can affect everything or even anything from the first one, all the time or at all.
For example:
If I or you, take some papers, and start writing imaginary laws of physics, like for example that the weight of an object is determined by how green it is, And that once a week the universe turns into a huge hamburger.
The laws described on those papers will not actually be applied on everything that is of physical existence, as the laws of physics are, and will not cause that this things will happen.
But the laws of physics on the other hand, do actually determine what everything that is of physical existence (mater, energy, time, space, light, antimatter, and maybe more), must do.
Like the law of gravity for example.
Another example: the possibility of using electricity is constantly affecting the reality these days. But the possibility of conquering the world, while using only cucumbers as a weapon is not. Because the first one is relevant to the current reality and the other one is not.
so for those reasons i said that the one principle is, that things which are of the first element constantly experience changes according to the meaning of specific things that are of the second element, that can do that, at that specific situation.
The theory is that there was a time when GOD, the laws of physics and maybe also the laws of logic didn't exist yet; but the elements and the principle did.
At that period what was happening was a process that was so:
Different second element things that were capable of causing change upon first element things in the current situation at that point, did so (caused change upon first element things). But that resulted in a new situation because they changed the situation. So in the new situation different second element things where capable of causing change upon first element things in the current situation at that new point, so they did so (caused change upon first element things). But that resulted in a new situation because they changed the situation. So in the new situation different second element things where capable of causing change upon first element things, in the current situation at that new point, so they did so (caused change upon first element things), and so on.
this process continued on and on, until at some point something that had a will of his oven, and was intelligent, got a chance to make a change, when he did, what he did, was to make the situation so that only he can be a reason for further change, and so he became GOD.
I don't know have he did that, or what he did afterwards. But apparently it required some thought, because otherwise something non-intelligent would have done that earlier. And he is smart enough to create everything that we know, so he is smart.
One way he could have done that was to create a situation where each second element thing (Possibilities, concepts, definitions, rules/laws, and also ideas and emotions, but not what we fill; the meaning of them. And some other things that also need to be in a specific way to be themselves) has as much influence as the second element thing that is that is the opposite of it in meaning.
For example: yes and no, backwards forwards, growing shrinking, going from a to b and going from b to a, happy and sad, and so on.
But he didn't balance himself so, he was the only thing that had influence on the first element, so at that point he became god, because he was the only reason to why anything happens, and he had a will of his oven, and he was very smart.
Why should you believe that the first part of this theory is true?
Because it solves this problems that result from the facts in the beginning:
1. How come the laws of physics exist, and are as if they are meant for us?
2. Jesus Christ was not crazy
3. If GOD is the answer then how was he created?
The answer to this question must result in something that could actually create almost everything we know, and that might have some reason to do that. Also the answers must make sense, and fit with the facts we knew for surety.
Part 2
It’s possible to say that it was a hard task for god to create us and a place where we can live, because evidently it took him at least 15 billion years, and possibly much more.
And that makes sense because even if he can do whatever he wants; because we know that there are really allot of laws of physics, and that they all fit together to something that makes sense, and some of them are very complicated, and there are many different kinds and species of animals and plants.
So if he worked very long and hard to make almost everything we know, than apparently it was important to him.
So, apparently he cares about us, or at least about some of us, at least in some way.
Otherwise why would he do that?
And so based on the above, and on that we are not in any significant contact with him here, it's very reasonable, that we or some of us will have some kind relation to him after this life.
And also that’s what Jesus said.
And as I mentioned, he didn't have a reason to lie, and it's possible to see he wasn't suffering from an incredibly sever case of grandiose delusional disorder.
What does this theory has to do with the lds church?
It has to do that on 30.1.2010 I was baptized into the lds church.
And on the next day, which was Sunday, I was subject to a ceremony called the laying down of hands, which is a ceremony that gives a convert the Holy Ghost.
And on that Sunday after church I started thinking about all of this.
Also it fits well with Mormon revelations, like this one for example:
"The Hebrew word translated as "created" means "shaped, fashioned, created, always divine activity" (Genesis 1:1c). The Prophet Joseph Smith explained:
"You ask the learned doctors why they say the world was made out of nothing: and they will answer, 'Doesn't the Bible say He created the world?' And they infer, from the word create, that it must have been made out of nothing. Now, the word create came from the word baurau which does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to organize; the same as a man would organize materials and build a ship. Hence, we infer that God had materials to organize the world out of chaos- chaotic matter, which is element, and in which dwells all the glory. Element had an existence from the time he had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and reorganized, but not destroyed. They had no beginning, and can have no end." (Teachings, pp. 350-52)
And Also:
Matthew 7:15-29
15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
So, according to this passage, the LDS church and its prophets are true (at least the main ones), because the results of there prophecies are evidently good.
Mormons are (on average) better at keeping gods commandments than any other denomination.
So according to Christ the LDS church is true, that's good enough.
Written by noam burde in århus Denmark
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