RE: If you were ever a theist...
January 3, 2016 at 2:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2016 at 2:44 am by Mystic.)
(January 3, 2016 at 2:16 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(January 3, 2016 at 1:33 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I believe the heart is created to be attracted to the Divine. Being attracted to the tranquility in the spirit of devotion to the divine doesn't mean one is convinced it exists. It means you long to know if it exists and wish it does. Of course, if you are going to reason "Why should I care about God and the path of devotion to her", that's a different story. I'm saying the healthy heart is attracted to the Divine and the path of devotion to it. It's a sign of God, but it doesn't mean you know God exists automatically because you are attracted to it. Of course, if you reflect over that which you are attracted to, that may lead to knowledge.
So you believe because you believe. Forget proof. What you are doing is not informed by any sort of reasoning. Rather, your reasoning is merely serving to dress up your naked bias to make it look more respectable.
Love itself is a inward language. It teaches a lot if not the most essential things in life. We don't reason how to be friends. We simply act and make friends. Our relationships are what they are through love. It's not some universal rule we apply the same, it's a whole language that applies differently to different people or things. We treat our parents, differently then our siblings, and treat our spouses different then siblings, children differently, etc, etc...and love teaches us to treat them in a similar yet different way.
If love was not linked to informing us of God, I would say definitely faith is not a virtue. Knowing God exists or not, would be a matter of simply knowing a fact to be true or not.
The greatest trust in love and biggest treasure, is that of it's link to God. We sever that trust, we break that bond, and it's huge injustice on our souls. God loses out nothing, but we lose a great deal. In that latter sense, God loses since she is compassionate and caring, in the sense of her own essence, no harm is done to do it.
You were asking my viewpoint. My stance. My view point it's not just a matter of this happens to be true or not, let's just find out the truth.
My view point is the heart of the soul and it's health depends on it's sincerity to God. Whether it is aware it knows God exists or not, it should be attracted to it.
God although is sublimely beyond our appreciation and realm, has no sons or consorts, is the closest being to all of us. Her right is that the greatest right, love to her is the most important love.
Finding the truth of the Divine and wanting to know the truth way of submitting to Her is not simply a purely intellectual exercise, it's something that applies to everyone, through the heart of the soul.