In response to deceptive_illusion:
I feel that a subjective faith is about as far as I can go. There is much about scientific and philosophical evidence for God's existence, but it's an argument I'm not sure I can lay out.
But what this debate has made people forget is that 'faith' is real and at many times the best hope we have. We trust that children will succeed in life and that spouses will remain faithful.
I also consider the reason I have faith not a last ditch effort, but the optimal way of believing in religion in modern times. Relationships fail when evidence of other people's actions is required too often, because it shows a lack of trust. Miracles fail because we ask more questions now and will do everything in our power to disprove them.
But good, in whatever form it comes, prompts gratitude to something, and there are times when the helper may not be a human. Good is simple, it is unchanging, it is personal, it is powerful, and, yes, it is subjective. Maybe we fear the subjective because it's one of the things we will never manipulate, explain, or measure. But it is there, and always will be.
This is all I have to say. It's not inrefutable proof of anything, but I think it's pretty good. Please keep in mind that I don't know there is a God, I simply believe that this is a good reason that there could be.
I feel that a subjective faith is about as far as I can go. There is much about scientific and philosophical evidence for God's existence, but it's an argument I'm not sure I can lay out.
But what this debate has made people forget is that 'faith' is real and at many times the best hope we have. We trust that children will succeed in life and that spouses will remain faithful.
I also consider the reason I have faith not a last ditch effort, but the optimal way of believing in religion in modern times. Relationships fail when evidence of other people's actions is required too often, because it shows a lack of trust. Miracles fail because we ask more questions now and will do everything in our power to disprove them.
But good, in whatever form it comes, prompts gratitude to something, and there are times when the helper may not be a human. Good is simple, it is unchanging, it is personal, it is powerful, and, yes, it is subjective. Maybe we fear the subjective because it's one of the things we will never manipulate, explain, or measure. But it is there, and always will be.
This is all I have to say. It's not inrefutable proof of anything, but I think it's pretty good. Please keep in mind that I don't know there is a God, I simply believe that this is a good reason that there could be.