The Naked Truth About God: The Quest To Find Evidence For Whether God Exists Reveals An Epic Discovery That Has Eluded Religion And Science

God. Man. Cosmos. Comprehension of the great triad has befuddled the brightest of minds both ancient and contemporary. With the religion-science debate largely dead-locked, there has been no compelling answer in modern times to the existence or inexistence of God. The Common Man is left to adopt whatever position that comforts their conscious the most. However, this alchemy of ignorance has brewed a surge in violent religious extremism with the likes of ISIS/ISIL that has put a choke-hold onto society near and far. Purchasing our freedom from this scourge has come at a high cost. The U.S. Defense Department's 3.5 year Operation Inherent Resolve has entailed over 24,500 air strikes and 98,500 munition drops, the death of some 50,000 ISIS fighters (Daesh terrorists), and many civilian and U.S. military casualties. The financial cost has scaled to $14 billion dollars and counting. The ensuing refugee crisis has affected 13.5 million people. The Naked Truth about God delivers a riveting dissection of mankind's accumulated knowledge to rigorously adjudicate the potentiality of God's existence by methodically and systematically probing the full gamut of salient issues. In the process, the reader is educated on how to navigate the enormous challenge of questioning one's own belief, or nonbelief, in God. Enriched with over 50 illustrations, Brian Goedken competently takes the reader on an expertly-threaded and engaging journey to traverse an impossibly vast landscape of knowledge to search for God's existence. After laying a robust groundwork to establish a common platform of understanding, the odyssey initiates at the beginning of civilization some six thousand years in the past. The development of the three Great Religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-is tracked through the adept use of archaeological, historical, and literary analytical methods to understand the authenticity of the many religious artifacts claimed as evidences of God. A special focus on the Christian Bible's New Testament is carried forward to elicit comprehension about the true origin of Christianity, how the Bible as a literary work came into existence, and how ancient Catholicism and unorthodox religions grappled with one another to emerge as the dominant religion. The author then alters the course to review frontier religion-modern, postmodern, and contemporary conceptions of God that evolved to correct logical incoherencies that riddled the "old religions." Some frontier religions differentiated themselves by wrestling with the hegemony of scientific discoveries and the philosophic conquests stemming from the Age of Enlightenment. The quest to find God takes another turn by investigating cutting-edge insights on how our universe came into existence and neuroscientific perspectives on human consciousness and the mind-brain's capacity to process external reality. The author deftly provides a layman's guide to understanding the relevant principles of quantum physics which is laced into the scientific discourse. After the sciences are given their due, the author begins to gather the many threads together by tackling the most potent philosophic arguments put forward by theologians and philosophers to argue in favor of an almighty deity. All the hard-fought and difficult-to-find kernels of wisdom unearthed throughout the book are pressed into service to forge a fresh paradigm that defines the most realistic and rationally supportable portrayal of the potentiality of God's existence with an unparalleled clarity. The reader's pilgrimage ends with the elucidation of a new salve to heal the acrimonious division between religionists, spiritualists, scientists, atheists, agnostics, and skeptics. The reader will also exit with a profound and contemporary understanding to many of life's greatest enigmas.

• | Author: Brian Goedken
• | Publisher: Arkenstone Media
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 763 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0998489867
• | ISBN-13: 9780998489865