Later, John the Evangelist will define Him in Ephesus at the end of the first century: GOD IS LOVE! (1 John 4: 8).

In the Middle Ages, due to the mistakes of the dominant religious power, man was choked and, therefore, did not search for Him so much, and He was worshiped only by those who were announced as initiates or the chosen ones.

When this this Historical period passed, and with the rise of Science, philosophers and minds with a reductionist view of man, spread, once again, His death, like the German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), with the allegory of "Superman" declaring in Paris: “God died”! Thus, inducing the mistake that He is not needed in human life. [3]

To believe in God, just look at the works of Creation

In scientific academies, the goddess reason is elected as the sovereign of life, offering heir axioms and postulates to explain and guide human destiny. In modern days, defending this atheist side of Science, is the physicist Victor Stenger, from the University of Hawaii, which provides examples "of how the Universe simply does not need God", emphasizing that Science can prove that God does not exist. [4]

Jesus centuries before, predicting these materialistic attitudes and expressions of naysayers about the existence of the Creator, promises the coming of the Comforter, which would present the Divinity with His true attributes and His guiding action in human thought through the Providence and Divine Mercy.

Thus, on April 18, 1857, Allan Kardec, the Encoder of Spiritism offers to Humanity the fundamental work of spiritual philosophy, The Book of Spirits. And he begins his comments with the question: What is God? And he receives the following answer: He “is the supreme intelligence, primary cause of all things." The Encoder then questions: “Where can we find proof of God's existence?” And the Spirits, on those so important days of the coming of the Comforter, answer: "In an axiom that you apply in your sciences. There is no effect without a cause. Seek the cause of everything that is not the work of man and your reason will answer”.

And the dedicated instrument of the Encoding Spirits concludes on a personal note: "To believe in God, simply look at the works of Creation. The Universe exists, and therefore, it has a cause. To doubt the existence of God is to deny that every effect has a cause and accept that nothing can do something".[5]

God, the origin of everything

What is the origin of man? What is the origin of the Earth and the Universe? These inquiries have been made at all times, not only by the ancient philosophers, such as the pre-Socratic Democritus (460-370 BC); by religious as the French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin (1880-1955) and modern scientists, highlighting the German Albert Einstein (1879-1955), the English Stephen Hawking (1942-), among others.

Before, we see the efforts of enlightened men by scientific interest pointing their instruments, although rudimentary, to Heaven, like Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer, and Claudius Ptolemy (90-168), Greek astronomer and mathematician of the second century AD, author of Geocentrism theory, trying to find in the mysteries of Infinity, an answer to the origin of things.

Sir Isaac Newton (1842-1727), English physicist and mathematician, considered the father of classical Physics, once built a miniature replica of the Solar System, and with it virtually convinced an atheist colleague of the inadequacy of the hypothesis of a by chance creator.

Where did man come from? Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist and biologist, for five years of his life, traveling aboard the ship HMS Beagle, dedicated his life to look in the past of living beings that inhabited the Earth, a solution for the existence, mutation and permanence of species, disseminating the results of its famous research in 1859, and this set of his texts, he called it On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.[6]

The attributes of the Deity according to Kardec

However, before, in 1857, a French teacher, Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail (1804-1869), after contacting with the inhabitants of the world of Spirits - a unique mental journey to other dimensions - and with them holding discussions through the mechanism of mediumship, he received instructions and teachings about the origin, nature and destiny of man on Earth and in Universal Space.

Being an expert in the formulation and structuring of thought, in a didactic way, he put together the teachings he received into a basic work of Spiritism, The Book of Spirits, where he shows that all that exists is the work of a "supreme intelligence, the primary cause of all things."

Obtaining confirmation of the Spirits about the highest degree of perfection of God, Allan Kardec defines the attributes of the Deity, emphasizing that God is eternal, infinite, immutable, immaterial, unique, omnipotent, supremely just and good, recalling in his studies the unforgettable lessons of Jesus about the Father of all things, spoken eighteen centuries before. Going deep into these teachings, the Immortals, who dictated the Coding, highlight the importance of the Reincarnation Law, as a law of the inhabited worlds, and that the Spirits are God's work, making them, in origin, simple and ignorant, that is, without knowing it, subjecting them to the Law of Progress,[7] where we find the foundations of the human race and origin of their long history on Earth, experiencing two developments:  biological and spiritual.

Where is God?

While science and religion still seek answers to the riddles of Humanity, involving the alpha moment of man and the mysteries of fate and death, Spiritism offers its postulates, in an exuberant and educational way, explaining that the whole principle is in God, in His wisdom and in His purposes.

A poet, however, "will say with the safety of those who state because they are sure: I see God in the child's laughter in Heaven, at sea, in the light of Nature." So says the Spiritist poet, born in Sergipe, Jose Soares Cardoso (1927-1991) in his book Where is God? Concluding:

"I see God, at long last, everywhere.
Everything speaks of His powers,
I Find God in art expression,
In the love of man, I also feel God!
 
But where I feel God with more beauty,
At His highest vibration,
It is not in Nature’s heart,
It is within my own heart”.[8]