From Theism to Meism

      I am interested in the fact that the Bible never raises the question about the existence of God. Common people thought it to be more or less self evident, not something that needed to be argued or proved.
   
      Human life is seen as fragile, limited, transitory, and precarious; like a flower of the field, human beings are here today and gone tomorrow. God is the one certain reality, the only reality that remains.
   
      By contrast, modern sensibilities began several hundred years ago with the philosopher Descartes. For him, the one thing certain was himself. "I think," he said, "therefore I am."
           
      Since then, we have gone steadily from Theism to Meism. Worth considering again is the biblical order of things: God is; therefore we are; we are; therefore I am.