From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

6 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove
Question 1
OSHO,
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST?
CHAPTER 8
God is not a solution but a problem
I do not believe that God does not exist, I know for sure He does not exist. And thank God that he
does not exist – because the existence of God would have created so many problems, difficulties,
that life would have been almost impossible.
You may not have looked at it from the angle from which I am going to talk to you – perhaps nobody
has ever tried to look at it from this angle.
The Christians say that God created the world. In fact, the hypothesis of God is needed for the
creation. The world is there; somebody must have created it. Whoever created it, that creator is
God. But do you see the implication?
If the world is created, then there can be no evolution: Evolution means that creation continues.
Think of the Christian story. God created the world in six days, and then on the seventh day He
rested; since then He has been resting. The whole creation was completed in six days. Now, from
where can evolution possibly appear? Creation means: finished! – the full stop has arrived. On the
sixth day, the full stop; and after that there is no possibility of evolution.
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