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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Simple question for everyone.
What is the foundation for your belief, or disbelief, in God?
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Like everyone else, I don’t have a simple answer but I’ll touch on part of my own personal journey and where it started.
In my mid-twenties, I had a major paradigm shift. I became convinced that life has natural laws or principles that govern it almost as though they are apart of the human condition. These principles are not unique to my faith nor any other faith. However, they are apart of most every major religion, enduring social philosophies and ethical systems including my own. I personally believe that these principles were designed and put into place by God.
As Teilhard De Chardin once said: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” That quote holds a lot of truth to me, as I don’t think we can truly fathom or comprehend a God – especially if he didn’t want us to be able to find him in the physical realm. He would be smart enough to design that fail-safe. This is only done via faith alone.