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How do we know G-d created the world?
by Mrs. Sarah Levi
The belief in a Supernatural Creator is both fundamental to Judaism and a matter of pure logic. There is nothing in all existence that does not have a source. To believe that this complex and beautiful world came to be as a matter of happenstance is completely illogical. There is a famous story that beautifully illustrates this point.
A non-believer came to a rabbi and asked him to prove the existence of
The rabbi explained that... he had accidentally knocked over the ink well on his desk onto a blank piece of paper and this poem was what the spill had produced...The non-believer read the work and was inspired by the lovely images described within the poem and asked the rabbi who the author was. The rabbi explained that there was no author. What had happened was that while deep in thought pondering the profound question he had been asked the rabbi had accidentally knocked over the ink well on his desk onto a blank piece of paper and this poem was what the spill had produced. The non-believer scoffed at the ridiculous notion that something as wonderful as that poem could be the result of an accident.
At that point the rabbi explained that if something as simple as a poem could not be created by accident or without an author then certainly something as wonderfully complex as our world could not come into being without an Author.
The skeptic was skeptical no more.
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