Our God — Page 97
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 97 attempts to stop him, he would shamelessly defend himself saying that there was nothing wrong with it, as he did so with the con- sent of the other party and that in any case others should mind their own business. But if someone else lays their hands on his own family, he goes mad with rage and he forgets that if he is enti- tled to fulfil his sensual desires, so are others. Likewise, a habitual liar may gain pleasure by deceiving others, but when someone else deceives him by lying, he becomes filled with rage and anger and seeks revenge. In short, the knowledge of good and evil is inherent in every- one and that is a strong reason to believe that man did not come about by himself as a result of mere chance or a blind law, but an All-Knowing and Wise Being has created him with a spe- cific purpose. The purpose is that he should nurture his natural instinct, implanted in him as a seed, to open avenues of great pro- gress. This will develop the image of the perfect source of beauty and grace and the only fountainhead of life—i. e. God—in him- self and enable him to go on achieving the heights of all kinds of beauty and grace throughout eternity. Think hard: This sense of good and evil inscribed in the fi t rah of every man, and this hid- den fountain of light that illuminates the heart of every human being, can never be the result of blind chance or mindless evolu- tion. It clearly proves that the Creator of this natural instinct is a Conscious Being with a decretive will, who has created man for the purpose that he develop this natural instinct to merit higher rewards. I cannot imagine that anyone with an iota of the ability to reflect can call this inherent sense of good and evil, present in every human being, merely a result of chance or natural evolution. Some say that this universe is like a machine and its