(1) If there is absolute meaning, then God exists in some form or another.
(1.1) The symbol 'God' is used merely as a placeholder for the Absolute.
(2) If God does not exist in any form, then there is nothing apart from the physical world. All phenomena can be accounted for in terms of physical explanations, and these explanations will be complete explanations.
(3) Therefore, if there is absolute meaning and God does not exist in any form, then the basis for absolute meaning must reside in the physical universe--i.e. can be explained by a purely naturalistic explanation.
(4) But, the physical universe consists of mere objects (if there is no God in any form).
(5) Mere objects cannot convey absolute meaning. They can be interpreted, but cannot be interpreted absolutely since there is no divine interpretation of them (assuming there is no God in any form).
(5.1) Even if God exists, mere objects do not convey absolute meaning, because they are merely symbols.
(5.1.1) Any meaning is an interpretation of them by a subject. An observation is not objective as long as it is made by a biassed subject--a subject living within the universe of the observed object. The only way for an observer to be objective is to be outside of the universe, and this is possible only for a God of some form.
(5.2) Even if God exists, any interpretation of the world is not implied by the world because the world is only physical. Hence any interpretation claiming to be "absolute" must have access to the divine interpretation of the symbols of the world.
(5.2.1) An interpretation is a function mapping symbols to meanings. For example, an interpretation of a first-order predicate calculus, or a sentential calculus. Without the interpretation function, the symbols are meaningless. Meaning does not reside in the symbol but in an interpretation function. This goes for everything, since everything is a symbol--there is, indeed, "nothing outside of the text" (Derrida) because there are nothing but symbols.
(6) You cannot use (1) to prove the existence of God in some form, because you must prove that there is absolute meaning to use (1) to that end.
(6.1) But, in order to prove that there is absolute meaning, you must prove the existence, first, of the Absolute, but this ammounts to proving that God exists in some form, for God
is the Absolute.
(6.1.1) The Absolute =def. the unmovable.
(6.1.1.1) We can only use extrapolation of metaphors to see this: a monument, a mountain, the earth. These of course are not unmovable, there is no unmovable in the universe because there are no non-relative reference points inside the universe. If one exists at all, it must be outside of the universe. And there are no objective marks inside the universe of the Absolute existing on the outside, since there can be no objectivity in the universe (by 5.1.1).
(6.1.1.2) The Bible is not the Absolute because it is a symbol too--subject to interpretation.
(6.2) If a person believes in God in some form, then it is by faith.
(6.2.1) This does nothing to diminish God. In fact, if God is as the Christians conceive, then this does everything to increase the mercifulness of God, for God was so gracious as to cut through the physical world to speak to some, to impart the belief in the Absolute in a world constantly in flux.
(6.2.2) The Absolute does not show itself in the physical.
