Divine providence has been debated time and time again but the fact is, we can't see it, feel it, or even find it. Of course there are some ways to explain heaven and the fact that our everyday lives are governed by some supernatural force but they usually leave out a factor like truth or reliability.
Once I heard a Emergency Room story, where a victim was rushed into ICU with a fatal wound from a car accident. She reported being conscious during the entire ordeal, although staff kept saying that her eyes were closed and she wouldn't respond. She went into surgery to come out alive (Thank God), but said that she was able to look down on her body as a "floating figure." This was also seen in multiple cases across the nation. Surprisingly, there was a surge to test this. When people went into near death surgeries the staff would write or hide something up on a high shelf- something that could only be seen from above. No one even reported any of these things. Doesn't this really disprove the fact that there is a higher dimension out there?
Or are there?
String theory is a complex way of dealing with the estranged idea of providence. String theory basically brings together all the factors of science and accounts for a dimension where a substance (or in this case divine figure) could be standing about a centimeter away from us. So essentially science may have proved why we can't see God, but then again its just a theory. Unproved and so far still debated, just like religion.
Currently, we were learning about early American literature. It was highly influenced by the idea that God does certain things for a reason, such as giving corn and supply to the Plymouth colonists and such ideas that the natives were helping them only because God saw it fit. This idea of providence really shows that some believe that life is governed by a divine force.
The existence of God always hit me hard as a kid. I ended up with what you think too. He might exist, but it might be that we just do not see him. I really agreed with what you had to say, and it was brave too.
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