But I do require Proof in so many facets of day to day living...why not God? Because, I think I have proof. Its personal. Its my living experience. Its the combination of my life experiences; from growing up Catholic, to dropping purple microdot as a teen, to seeing successful recovery in action in the form a person's selected 'higher power', to intellectual study of uncommon God concepts, to innately feeling compassion for any person in a state human need. The Urantia Book, a self proclaimed revelation 'for the next 100 years' http://www.urantia.org , states:
".......The eternal God is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universe personalized. God is not simply the supreme desire of man, the mortal quest objectified. Neither is God merely a concept, the power-potential of righteousness. The Universal Father is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. God is a transcendent reality, not merely man's traditional concept of supreme values. God is not a psychological focalization of spiritual meanings, neither is he "the noblest work of man." God may be any or all of these concepts
in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personality survival in death.
The actuality of the existence of God is demonstrated in human experience by the indwelling of the divine presence, the spirit Monitor sent from Paradise to live in the mortal mind of man and there to assist in evolving the immortal soul of eternal survival. The presence of this divine Adjuster in the human mind is disclosed by three experiential phenomena:
1. The intellectual capacity for knowing God--God-consciousness.
2. The spiritual urge to find God--God-seeking.
3. The personality craving to be like God--the wholehearted desire to do the Father's will.
The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. God can be realized only in the realms of human experience; nevertheless, the true concept of the reality of God is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of personality survival.
Those who know God have experienced the fact of his presence; such God-knowing mortals hold in their personal experience the only positive proof of the existence of the living God which one human being can offer to another. The existence of God is utterly beyond all possibility of demonstration except for the contact between the God-consciousness of the human mind and the God-presence of the Thought Adjuster that indwells the mortal intellect and is bestowed upon man as the free gift of the Universal Father."
I know that I have a mind. It has thoughts and creates feelings. These things are intangible, and I cannot prove them. No one can prove the existence of mind. Even philosopher/scientists will agree to that. "....Mind is your ship, the indwelling spirit is your pilot, the human will is captain."One final thought.... the shear vastness of the cosmos, in comparison to our small place in it, leads me to theorize that we are not alone in the universes. I, personally, don't need proof of that. Seeing how our little corner of the world (the USA) has evolved over the past 100 years, leads me to theorize that the other inhabitants of our cosmos, are most likely in many varying stages of intellectual capacity/evolution. Perhaps our earthly combination of arrogance and naivete leads us to see only short distances on our paths...
Peace to you,
Claudia
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