(January 2, 2016 at 4:30 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: The place where the mystic, intuition toward faith worries me is when it goes to ground in established dogma. I'll cop to honoring those sorts of intuitions. But I never will cash them in for off the rack, religious beliefs. Creator god, after life and moral arbiter are not roles I'm casting for in my life.
This is it. The heart of the issue. The issue of submission to a Guiding Lord through appointed Guides, is something you have to want for proofs and evidence to become effective per my belief.
As a Deist, I tried my best to reason myself into morality. I felt like I could not know a lot of things, being blurry, but even if I felt something was wrong but didn't know it to be wrong, as long as there was no clear indication it was, I was free to do it if I desired so.
I then wanted to become more of new age person, looking for spiritual guides in the realm of the unseen, to guide me, but that they weren't of a specific religion or dogma. However then rational discourse over this whole issue began to take place. I haven't even talked about most of those reasons here. The Quran deals with so much angles proving religion of God.
If you don't come with the spirit of 1:6 "Guide us the straight path", all reminders or signs in the soul, that point to the truth of God, his holy names, his signs within us, the connection of his lights and glories and his name/face with us, etc, have no avail.
There is a verse in Quran that says that to not be like a certain people who forgot God, so God made them forget themselves/their souls.
Perhaps I am going about this wrong.
I will try to clarify my position more clearly in the future.
