IN READING

( New Reasons to Believe )

From the beginning of time through the present, man has been so preoccupied with debating the source of the Holy Books or those who transmitted them, that he has not studied their contents. Yet it is what’s written inside a book that makes it sacred.

Religions also suffer from the illness of inward withdrawal. In religion this illness can be seen as remaining chained to the past and holding on to the old. Man’s closing in on himself is an act of holding on to his past and to the information he has accumulated. As a result, instead of giving persuasive, credible new answers to questions posed by today’s people, the responses are based on past hearsay, and depend on legends and stories. Rote defense of the thoughts of those who came before us, therefore copying the conservatism of the past, (fixation on imitation) has, historically, never been accepted.

Questioning with our clogged intelligence, relying on historical hearsay, legends and stories, and trying to stop the evolution of knowledge and time does not amount to questioning, but to conservatism. Is it not the command of the Creator that we produce new thoughts through the books for all times until the day of reckoning?

The extreme reaction (forbidden by the Creator) shown by conservative people who regard any thinking that is outside the system as a threat, is the result of the conservative person meeting the other. The ability to re-express the existing knowledge or the practices of the past (the traditions) without changing its core or by keeping its essence, is to be able to see what’s new and to evolve.

Fear of questioning that stems from a lack of self-confidence, is fear of losing. This book, like all new points of view, is the product of years of research. It will, of course, be reviewed, researched and reexamined. The results are impressive, far reaching and give reason for hope. While giving new answers to old questions concerning the beginning (the creation of the universe) which is at least as old as mankind and which has not been questioned in a long time, it rises several more, rather radical questions that have not been asked before.

We have searched long enough for the Creator of past and future, in the past, as if he didn’t exist in the future. The accumulation of information we have today about what is visible is sufficient to understand the unseen in order to explain and understand it. Following the fingerprints left by the Creator who created the universe in six days and rested on the at seventh, will, with the help of science and technology, take us to the source that seems to be just out of sight.

To conceal a matter, this is the glory of God, to sift it thoroughly, the glory of kings. (Proverbs 25:2, OT)

My only claim is my sincerity. When you’re ready we will begin.

Aydın TÜRKGÜCÜ

 * In the book “A capital “G” is used to denote the true Creator and a lower case “g” is used for the others like fire, sun, ect. Which are worshiped by human beings.