While acknowledging my utter limitations in the matter, may I dare posit to Joseph Caruana and John Guillaumier the classic proposition: why is there something and not nothing?

Hans Kung, in his precious little book Credo, deals rather extensively with this notion.

Kung even elaborates on the virgin birth, very much like Edward Mallia did.

He then goes on to mention that, in our case as believers, there is a hierarchy of truths.

There is, of course, his massive work Does God Exist? He starts rather amusingly with the pseudo-Cartesian assertion, “I believe, therefore I am!”, but this makes very heavy reading, andI never managed to go through it all.

The overarching problem to my mind is not the existence of one supreme unmoved mover but coming to terms with Jesus of Nazareth as my lord...

The letter to the Hebrews, chapter 11 – the faith chapter – begins with ‘an attempted’ definition of the gift of faith: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” But, even so, in my struggle, my humble prayer still is: “Lord, strengthen my feeble faith.”

To some, my comments are possibly mere childish rubbish. Fine, but like the Jansenist Blaise Pascal, I am not prepared to gamble on the possibility of the existence of God.

In the same vein, I try to keep in mind the memory of that great Jesuit Pere Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in his seeing in Jesus of Nazareth, his, and by implication, my, omega point.