From Open Questions
By Helva of Galthi, known as Saint Helva the Faithful Doubter
Have I ever heard the words of God? The God, any god? If I have, I confess that I couldn’t recognize the voice of God within my mind, and if anyone has ever divulged such words to me from their own received revelation, the divine inspiration of their word escapes me. And like so many others, I have never heard the spoken voice of God in my ear. Perhaps you can identify.
Yet I find myself in a world of contingent beings, which must require a Non-Contingent Being, for the contingent cannot ultimately arise from the contingent. And how could this particular world, with the predictable order of its many moving parts, emerge without the work of an organizing Creator? If the Maker had not made a world with physics, how could physics exist? And look around you: physics exists! But the Prime Entity, who implies itself to my mind in logic, seemingly remains silent.
So here I find myself, on the face of a Gabrook whose Author eludes me. But I do not lose hope: for I have not walked its breadth, nor spoken to every last one of its inhabitants, nor read all its books, nor lived all my life. And if I might yet hear from my Maker, whether from a messenger or the Speaker Itself, then perhaps my thirst for a true and meaningful message will be sated. Unrelenting, I will seek, I will ask, and I will listen in hope to hear what God might have me know.
Do you know the words of God? Can you tell me?