God Arises
The Life We Seek
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refutes my words a thousand times over, still I
cannot accept its refutation.”
Such was the longing for truth which welled up in
Engels when he was young; yet he was unable to
find fulfillment; disillusioned with conventional
Christian religion, he became lost in economic and
political philosophies. But, in truth, man has a much
more fundamental need than these. First and
foremost, he needs to know his own nature and the
nature of the world he lives in, how he came into
this world and what will happen to him after death.
More than anything else, it is man’s nature to seek
answers to these questions. The world in which he
lives is lacking in nothing; it lacks only the answers
he seeks. The sun provides him with heat and light,
but he does not know the sun’s true nature, or why
it has been put to his service. The wind is a source
of life for man, but he is not able to stop the wind in
its course and ask it what it is, and why it acts as it
does. Man’s own being stares him in the face, but he
remains in the dark as to what he is, and why he
has come into this world for. It is beyond the
human mind to work out answers to these
questions. Yet answers he must have. Not everyone
