PureX
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As human beings, I don't believe we can "know God" in the way that some religions claim, and that would be required to know that "God is there". What we can do, though, as limited human beings, is we can choose to trust that God is there even though we can't know it, and through that trust we can begin to see and experience the effect of God in our lives. And we can then experience that effect as love and forgiveness and healing.Originally posted by granite1010 ...he may be there...but he is silent.
We could be wrong, of course, and this "divine effect" we experience could simply be the result of our own imagination's effect upon ourselves, but so what? Does this really matter? If my life is made better by my believing in a loving God even though I can't actually know that this God exists, (neither can I know that this God does NOT exist) then why not choose to believe it? If I become a better man to myself and to everyone around me because I choose to believe that the "evidence" of God is the love in our lives, and in so believing I can develop and share that love with others, why not do it? - Especially when I can't prove this to be UNtrue, either.
I think the only danger in doing this would be in forgetting that this belief is my choice, and is based on faith rather then on knowledge or proof. When that happens I become a liar even to myself, and that kind of dishonesty always causes strife in our lives and in the lives of everyone around us. This is why these absolutist versions of religion are always so harmful.
(Ooops, I hadn't read far enough in the thread to have seen your response to my previous post, so this one may be somewhat irrelevant to you, but I'll leave it here maybe for the benefit of others.)
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