An Identity Based Argument For The Existence Of God

Premise 1: Some Philosophers of Identity such as Derek Parfit have shown that individual identity is not the concrete thing we commonly assume it to be; that in fact there MAY be no such thing as the self or identity. My first premise is this idea, “What if there is no such thing as the self or identity?”.

Premise 2: If there is no separate individual part of something then everything must be, rather than separate, part of a greater whole and so perhaps, rather than being individual selves with separate identities, each self is really part of a collective self; each perceived identity really part of a collective identity.

Premise 3: This collective self or identity could be called lots of different things; the human race; life; existence or even God.

Conclusion: IF it is true that the self and identity don’t really exist then PERHAPS each person is part of a collective person, the person of God.

Further thought – If we are all really part of one single person then why are human beings in conflict with each other? Why don’t we all think and feel the same way?  Comment: Within me there are conflicts and doubts; within me I have arguments over matters moral and practical. Perhaps the conflicts between human beings are Gods arguments with itself; perhaps the questions that the human race is asking and the problems it is trying to solve are the questions God is asking itself and the problems that God is trying to solve.