Might God Exist If Truth's a Friend

Might God Exist if Truth’s a Friend? Is the faith God exists a faint hint that One might, does belief (that One doesn’t) suggest God’s not real, (1) aren’t both vain (those who hate, those who worship a ghost)? (2) Does a breeze that refreshes us mean that we’re loved or a heatwave that makes us sweat say that we’ve sinned? It is ‘magical thinking’ to say ‘bad’ and ‘good’ in your life are God’s gifts for your faith or your acts! (3) What ‘we’ think of as good might well prophecy doom, and what’s counted as sin be a Garland of Grace. (4) We personify God when we call God by ‘Name’ (5) but God’s more an idea (like grasping at straws) and when God gets imagined, God’s always too small. Fair to say that GOD IS (or God’s Not) is not all for GOD’s universe bares GOD that IS! And real Laws do exist (though they change, die, are always the same). (6) Aren’t demands (God’s unchanging) quite vain on their face (understandable whim)? Can’t God grow? There’s no room for an infinite God to find grace in Art’s facts? Are we Artist’s reflection (God-shaped?) or just wood carved by myopic Sculptor, a butterfly pinned to a world lost in space, a creation that’s shoved in between heat’s ‘Big Bang,’ and cold’s entropic boast? Can souls bargain for justice (with what would they deal)? It’s respect child owes parent, ‘blind faith’ conjures spite. (7) Brian Johnston 26th of September in 2021 My current answer to the poem’s title’s question: If truth is not my friend, at least partially accessible (or is entirely unattainable), I don’t care if God exists. If truth is my friend, that is my heaven (God is real!). Poet’s Notes: (1) Isn’t ‘faith’ non-existent if you ‘know’ what is true? Is to say, “I ‘know’ this is true!” always human vanity? Isn’t the worship of ‘your understanding of God’ a great definition of ‘idolatry?’ Have faith but allow others their faith as well! And faithfully interrogate your faith daily (like brushing your teeth). (2) Does it make sense to hate or love something that does not exist? But to hate all ignorance seems OK. (3) The rain that supports life falls on the just and the unjust alike! Does a loving God seek to spoil or flatter us or perhaps desire more what helps us grow? Can what’s ‘good’ in our lives ever be something we earn (or is it always a gift from God)? (4) It is not our place to judge others or ourselves, for even self-knowledge is elusive. On the other hand, kindness is almost always a good idea. We should practice self-love daily to learn what serves others. (5) Christ called God “Father” and invites us to do the same, but this describes the relationship between us and is not a name. (6) I’ve often wondered if the rainbow existed before Noah’s flood. Might God have changed the laws of creation to make a rainbow possible? (7) Can you imagine not feeling free to ask your father a question?