Does God exist?
A creditable and voluminous treatise, with examining the possibility, of a contemporary theistic attitude, in other words, it proposes the affirmation of God with the context of total human experience. It is not the logical demonstration of the existence of a metaphysical principle demanded for the coherence of a metaphysical position; neither is it an abandoning of rationality by a flight into wordless mystics. It moves from lived experience of human contingency and need towards the affirmation of God who alone can truly be the answer not only to the questions man has, but to the basic question that he is. If God existed, there would be for man the possibility of a liberating transcendence, one that does not begin and end with the world itself but in its otherness truly liberates. The existence of God would then also render the eternal longing of man significant, not longing for nothing. Man’s being is itself the pure desire to know. If God would exist, there would be a radical solution to the mystery of reality. If God would exist, then, the chance evolution of the human species out of a million matters would be understandable.
Because reality is problematic, the negation of God is possible. The evil in this world will always provide good arguments against the facile acceptance of the existence of God. Man tried to show many examination of the nature of “proofs” for the existence of God that the atheist’s position is irrefutable. Man does not concede that validity of the question to which Got is offered as the answer. However, it must also be said that atheism cannot be rationally demonstrated and that there is therefore no logical necessity for an atheistic position.
The most important here is that an inverse relation between the degree in which a truth is personal and its security. This is not meant that personal and truths are not certain, but one will have to be prepared for certitude different from the exactness by a manipulation of mathematical formulae (to be rational enough). The more impersonal, the more personal the question is the more openness and commitment (which presuppose freedom) are called for certitude in this case arises not put of calculation but of commitment. Man then needed to become rational enough in every experience that he has in life., not like the atheist the ultimate questions of life must remain answered, but rather man must question himself what can he know? What can he do? What can he hope for? So must so that mans confidence in reality is ultimately justified and founded. The option for the affirmation of God is an option for the foundation of reality instead of the finality of contingency, an option for final purpose and meaning rather then, absurdity, an option for ultimate value rather than futility.
It is also in the light of these final considerations that we see that man is the original fact or religion. Out of the desire to understand him and the world, the desire to find the condition for the problematic reality, the question of God arises, and from this, religion, according to Rahner Karl, can therefore say that God has a future; this means for man shall have left aside all discourse about God then also shall cease all questioning that has characterized him as man; whence, why, whither? Then too shall man cease to be man, as in fundamental trust, however, faith has interiors rationality, rationality that manifest itself only when man opens himself to God and accepts him as the answer to his most fundamental questions, when one accept God as the answer and grasp the concrete life of the believers. The hidden God reveals himself to the heart of the believers that has been opened to him. Indeed there will be an epiphany only for then who are humble enough to deny themselves, their projections and their world and finality. For them who, with the humility of shepherd, hearken to the rumor of the angels the contradiction and ambiguities of the world, God touches the hearts of men.
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