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My question is:
Is the human Soul at Risk without God?
My answer to this question is:
In the Meditations on the First Philosophy by René Descartes “I have already slightly touched on these two questions of God and the human soul in the Discourse on the Method of rightly conducting the Reason and seeking truth in the Sciences, published in French in the year 1637.” Descartes spends an enormous amount of time meditating on the principals that are derived from the senses and hope that the soul could be saved if people live by the law of God and work through all the dubious thoughts and beliefs. For example, during the sleep states there are moments of disbelief and leave people uncertain about those things real and true. Reading through this piece caused emense struggling with the things that easily deceive those that want to know the true. Take the bible for example, it is easily said that bible could have been true primarily because the scriptures written/recorded and then passed on by credible sources year over year for centuries. This concept make the relation to God and the risk of losing your soul profound and motivates believers to do all that the scriptures say and never doubt the truth of the scriptures. Existence becomes more and more validated through life lessons past, present and future actions that are recorded and shared providing a very clear knowledge of the truth and this case the human soul is certainly at risk without a true God to lean on and seek the truth early and often. Meditation and thoughts while spent along inevitable afford the meditator to gravitate towards words, thoughts, and answers which are captured in the beliefs shared over many and many years.
Reference: In the Meditations on the First Philosophy by René Descartes- Preface to the People
