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Originally Posted by Brendan
Furthermore, I feel like the reason we can't disprove God anymore than we can prove God is because, we're told that God is sublime. We are not, however, and as the only way we can know of something is from our own flawed perspective, how can we ever know what it means to be sublime and, more importantly, what it means not to be sublime.
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I really like your thoughts, Brendan.
It's hard to say what captivated me to believe so strongly about Christianity--I was raised with it, and a young child (and an INJ at that) does not see the world in the same way an adult does. I had years of growth in which I constructed my reality, and within that was deeply woven the nature of God.
Christianity has a lot of logic in it; it also has a lot of mysticism in it. They go hand in hand. You can't reason Christianity because it's not all
reasonable. It's got a lot to do with love.
Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. (Matthew 22:36-40).
And biology and chemistry and physiology and genetics can only go so far to explain love. There isn't a lot of logic in the overwhelming majority of it.
I think at this point in my life, the simplest way to explain a case for pursuing God is something I've heard, perhaps maybe even on INTPc?:
If God exists, nothing else matters. If God doesn't exist, nothing else matters. (Note: those two sentences are polar opposites, read carefully.)
I can't explain or give much of a Case for Christ, as it were. Most of the God Stuff comes from the Holy Spirit, and that only comes when someone opens their heart and wonders and asks questions. Then sometimes your soul learns stuff that takes your brain a lot longer to learn.
Logic and faith work in tandem, though. It's not either-or, but rather they're deeply intertwined and generally I find myself following one strand until there's a knot and I jump to the other and can follow the rope farther along because they work together.