How can you not believe in God
Faith is the belief in something we can not see or prove, so, by its very nature, everyone has doubts, most of which they keep private, and many of which they deny, even to themselves. That’s why many people who base their faith around a certain dogma are so aggressively defensive of it. Especially in fear-based religions that warn them against thinking for themselves, they are most afraid of anything that touches upon the doubts they themselves might harbor. That’s why the insidious idea of an anti-Christ was developed.
From studying faiths and people of faith, I have come to the conclusion that we as humans can believe just about anything, but we only know for sure what we have experienced.
I just smile whenever someone says that I am a person of great faith, because I am nothing of the sort. My profound death experience and later intense spiritual experiences have given me the certainty, not the faith, in the God I know over the God I was taught to imagine.
The way to solid faith is in having the courage to think for yourself.
The fact is, to be alive, every one of us must contain a soul, which is the force, the image, and the likeness of God’s benevolencenot his physique. Even if we deny Him completely, turning our faith to science, to the Devil, or to nothing at all, we all contain this awareness of something deep inside, something that motivates our life force, something beyond the explanations of science, that part of our existence that very knowledgeable scientists refer to as “the ghost within the machine.”
Whenever we feel the deep emotions of love, or when we know something without the slightest doubt, we sense that it goes to the very core of our existence. We may exclaim that we feel it in our hearts, but the coronary organ has no more capacity for feeling love than the liver, or the large intestines. When we say we feel something in our heart, the implication is something physical, not spiritual. In a sense, it is a subconscious denial of the metaphysical. In truth, every time we feel this deep emotion, we have opened communication to our souls, to the God within us.
The ego’s job is to deny through a myriad of fears the very existence of the soul; but if you’re still here, it’s still within you. And God loves you, even when you curse Him, even when you deny Him, and even if you worship evil instead. Unconditional love is just that: no conditions, no damnation. It is a love of infinite patience, and He’s waiting patiently for you to find your own way.
The world and the ways of man is what makes this journey difficult. And when we create a God that not only mirrors the worst attributes and fears of man, but surpasses them, we blindfold ourselves to the ultimate truth of unconditional, universal love.
(An excerpt from A Higher Good.)
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