Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done.
“What happens when people die?”
“They go to heaven or hell.”
“What if there isn’t a heaven or a hell?”
“Well, their souls go back to God.”
“And if there isn’t a God?”
“There is.”
“If there isn’t?”
“There is.”
“What IF there isn’t?”
“Maybe their souls float around.”
“So, once they’re dead, they go to heaven or hell or to God, else they float around. So, there are probably 6billion souls floating around amongst us?”
“Perhaps.”
“Maybe that signifies the end of the world. When it’s too congested to live on, it ends?”
“No.”
“Why not? Maybe the humans choke, and die. Maybe that’s why we have tsunamis- maybe someone fought and it isn’t really plate tectonics. Or even if it is, maybe someone moved them. Maybe it’s just a game the dead souls are playing on us. Maybe they control us.”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Cause God controls us, ‘cause Fate decides and Destiny is decided.”
“Maybe you’re wrong.”
“Maybe you are.”
“I know I might be, but you won’t give anything the benefit of the doubt.”
“Perhaps I shouldn’t”
“Why? ‘cause God will punish you?”
“Yes. And ‘cause the Faith keeps me alive.”
“So you cling onto that Faith in order to survive?”
“In order to have something to live for.”
“People or dreams, goals or objectives should be reasons you live for.”
“They are. But the Faith gives me hope that I’ll make it.”
“A friends Faith can give you that hope too.”
“Faith in God allows me to never falter.”
“Even when someone close to you dies, or you see your dog run over? When you fail an exam you worked for, when someone in your family falls horribly ill? When you do not get what you deserve, while everyone knows you deserve it, and you have made no mistakes to have it taken away from you?”
“Yes. Faith in God gets me through all of that.”
“And if God doesn’t exist? If God isn’t Krishna or Ganesh, Christ or Allah?”
“God is all of them, and more.”
“More?”
“God is the sea that surrounds us, the land we thrive on, the sky above us, the air we breathe.”
“Maybe it isn’t God, and just a celestial being?”
“It’s all the same.”
“How?”
“It keeps me alive. Keeps my Faith strong. Gives me hope, let’s me survive.”
“So, God keeps you alive. Nameless or not.”
“Yes.”
“Yes. Till the Faith is shattered.
Till you falter, and lose hope.
Till you no longer have anyone to blame for all the bad,
Or thank for the good.
Till it’s too much to bear.
Till you die.”
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
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