It must be true that God exists. Part 5

It must be true that God exists

Part 5: A child-like faith flows seamlessly into mature truth and provides the key to find God

However, I return to the simple truth that the religious experience is a reality. In this respect, it does not require “faith”, if faith is understood to be a commitment to something that is otherwise not provable – for the religious experience is provable. However, I think that faith is still involved in that you have to have an attitude of trust and hope in order to commit to this belief in the reality of the religious experience – for it is a belief until such time as you have it for yourself. So, the fundamental faithful attitude is still being employed, and I think this will count as faith and be sufficient to activate the experience of being completely and utterly loved.

I finish with a repetition of my astonishment that a big chuck of humanity should simply ignore this obvious, immediately available, verifiably efficacious source of peace, joy and love. And simply because they stumble over believing in God. Of course, I am being mischievous in saying “simply” because they don’t believe in God; believing in God is a very big deal indeed. Yet I feel sure that a large proportion of people who have rejected belief in God have done so because they have an inadequate picture in their minds of who God is. I hope that our thinking about this has shown that, whatever our uncertainties about God – and they are never going to go away – the reality of the experience of being utterly loved – which is what many of us mean when we talk about the reality of God – is completely indubitable. The experience is real; what you call it is up to you, but it seems not unreasonable to call it “God”. I was told this as a child.