This post is dedicated to the elevation of the soul of Dalya Davida bas Yisroel.
The court tells the witnesses: Therefore, Adam the first man was created alone, to teach you that with regard to anyone who destroys one soul from the Jewish people, i.e., kills one Jew, the verse ascribes him blame as if he destroyed an entire world, as Adam was one person, from whom the population of an entire world came forth. And conversely, anyone who sustains one soul from the Jewish people, the verse ascribes him credit as if he sustained an entire world.
Mishna, Sanhedrin 4:5
Since you are the Protagonist, with unity/selflessness and holiness inside you, that is also where you will find G-d. G-d is not found in external relation, as another being in existence. You do not arise from existence, and G-d even less. We relate to Him as another spiritual or physical self only parochially, since the external world of existences is a distant province, less than us, beneath us. G-d is found as the Self beyond self, through a different mode of relation, an inner relation.
G-d is less like the conclusion to an argument than an a priori, which is why atheism and G-dliness are not identical. G-d is something that the Protagonist brings to the argument implicitly, not something found within its claims or even its logic. When it comes to G-d, then, arguments are beside the point.
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