When you listen to folks talking about God one word comes up repeatedly - "believe", as in "do you believe in God?" Or, "I believe/don't believe in God"
The question I guess is why?
If the conversation was about almost anything else the word would hardly arise. For example could you imagine a conversation beginning "do you believe in dogs?", or "I don't believe in the planet Saturn". So why, when talking about God?
I took the time to look up "belief" in the dictionary. Evidently it, at least, can imply lack of empirical evidence. Well dear reader, I will nail my colours to the mast; I believe in God. I, however, believe that there is empirical evidence of God's existence.
See what I mean, I have hardly begun this discussion and I am already using the word "believe"!
Look around you, there is evidence go God everywhere.
Many years ago I was asked to consider what I would think if I found a gold watch lying in the street. Would I think it had been left there by someone, or in the alternative, would I think that all the various elements and constituent parts had come together in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, perhaps over billions of years, to create the watch by cosmic accident?
I will leave it to you, dear reader, to form a view. This is a subject I may, will, return to, because, you see I don't just believe in God, I know God exists, watches over us and answers our prayers.
That is the subject of another post. Knowledge implies the application of logic and the existence of empirical evidence. If you do not agree with my view, then you should prove me wrong, rather than insisting, perhaps, that I prove anything, especially if you are not open to the evidence before you.
I do not know if anyone but me will read this blog, but if you have taken the time to do do I thank you.
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