Religious experiences are real and certain, even if God isn’t. Part 4: Judging from our end of the relationship with God restores the concept of knowledge because we do know what we are experiencing inside ourselves
My hope is that for both believers and atheists they will be able to abandon the idea that the element of doubt means they are not allowed to live a life of faith, or that it undermines and spoils their life of faith.
However, in practice, however God actually is in his inmost, truest self – and only he knows that – from my end of the relationship, I experience God in exactly the same ways as you would expect if it could be shown that the traditional God of Christianity had been scientifically proven.
Given this, I feel happy and content to pursue my life of faith, because that way of life is supremely satisfying. Note: I am not sticking my head in the sand; I am not relying on blind faith, or an obstinate denial of the facts of objective reality. I am taking on board everything that modern knowledge can give us about the material universe, but also everything that we can learn about the inner life and capabilities of human beings. My faith does not require me to believe “6 impossible things before breakfast”; it does not require me to deny the manifest evidence of what happens in the world or in my own life. It simply requires me to acknowledge how faith enriches my life beyond measure, and, taking onboard all the truth about existence that I can muster, allows me to make the reasonable judgement that there are sufficient grounds to justify my life of faith.
Spiritual Devotion 