The God Notion: A Non-religious Guide to Believing in God

by Stuart E. Elwell, S.E. Elwell

A SCIENCE-FRIENDLY INTERPRETATION OF SPIRITUALITY AND DIVINE PURPOSE

How can we possibly believe the old ideas about God in the face of modern scientific knowledge and understandings? ...But it doesn’t have to be God versus Science, or God versus Evolution.

The biggest questions humanity has ever asked: why are we here, what is the meaning of life, and who or what is God. It boils down to asking why there is anything more than nothing. Absolute nothingness can only be described as a concept by simply NOT being anything; and so anything that exists has to be more than this nothingness but equally less than whatever infinity is – which encompasses the potential of everything.

This book describes all reality as coming from this infinite potential, but this potential cannot be anything without becoming less than infinite, or finite. So infinite potential needs to be worked out in the context of being more than nothing, but less than "The Infinite". This forces a natural processing; which means the universe, as if stemming from a kind of pure focussing of infinite potential, is like a processing "Universal Mind."

The God Notion goes into depth explaining this as a logical non-religious argument for believing in God as this Universal Mind, and describes spirituality and divine purpose as a fact-based science-friendly subject that could change the way people think about the concept of God forever.

Genres: Religion

136 pages, Paperback

Published February 3, 2016

About the author

For most my life I have had a keen interest in the worlds many differing views about humanity's biggest questions; such as how can we reconcile God and science, and asking, is God real ? I guess my main quest has been to seriously contemplate and evaluate how we can possibly believe the old ideas about God in the face of modern scientific knowledge and understandings. Now, in my mid-fifties, and after decades of thoughtful research and study, I no longer believe it has to be God vs. science, or God vs. evolution ; and I have a passion to write about what I have learned. My mission is to take a common sense exploration of ideas into account, including metaphysics, mystical, and philosophical insights. As the author of The God Notion , I write to present a logical non-religious argument for believing in God, and to describe spirituality and divine purpose as a fact-based science-friendly subject. The thoughts and views expressed within my writings both in the book, and on the website (www.thegodnotion.com), derive from a lifetime of gathering and interpreting information, science aspects, and philosophical perspectives from around the world - along with personal opinion, reasoning, and conclusions. The hope is to bring together respectfully modern knowledge and age-old insights and philosophies into a more open or congenial explanation of God that can sit comfortably in the balance.

Reviews

[Kirstin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book from a goodreads giveaway. I didn't particularly love it. but it wasn't bad either. not gonna lie, some of the explanations went pretty far over my head. I already believe in God so I don't know how helpful it is to those who don't.