Logic tells me God doesn't exist but my heart says otherwise.

[bennyboy]

Your "heart" tells you that God exists because reality is scary, it's difficult; you're born in the world alone and you die alone, and in your thoughts you are also persistently alone. The only way to escape this existential loneliness is to believe in God, and it works until you realize how superficial that belief really is.

You maybe right, but in my case, it's not only that I am scared for my own sake, I think off all humans past and present who are going to crease to exist. The many children who died as children. To me, it would be tragic if God doesn't exist. That human lives don't continue after death. I guess that could be playing a huge part in my faith.

I've had this problem too, in different ways.

In the end, your feelings are important-- central to who you are as a human being. It is, however, possible to fully indulge your feelings without letting them lead to irrational conclusions. It's perfectly possible to enjoy a sense of communion with God, and a feeling of spiritual satisfaction, or of a general rightness about the universe. Those feelings have real value for people, but the accuracy of their ideas about where the feelings come from have nothing to do with anything.

It should be obvious that many people, from all societies throughout history, have had experiences so mind-blowing that their lives were changed. It should be equally obvious that while their experiences are qualitatively similar, their source attributions are so radically different that they should be discarded as fictions. Let the power of an experience, and whatever lesson you get out of it, be a self-sufficient truth, IMO.