Article February 18, 2008 Issue

DOES GOD EXIST?

BY MIRANDA MILLER

DOES GOD EXIST? Do I exist? What, if anything, is real? These aren't questions I thought I'd be facing my first year in college. But pretty soon, they consumed my thoughts.

A couple of my friends were exploring atheistic and nihilistic beliefs, which led to some unsettling conversations about these theories of existence. The ideas terrified me, particularly the nihilistic notion that nothing really exists, everything is an illusion, and therefore nothing matters whatsoever. According to this theory, we've all been fooling ourselves into believing that there is some real purpose to life.

Up until this point, my spiritual education had taken place in the Christian Science Sunday School. And the metaphysical concepts I was studying in the Christian Science Bible Lessons were having a practical, healing effect in my own life. As a result, my love and appreciation for Christian Science were growing.

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