When people long for an answer, what they really long for is peace.
There is no amount of logic that will bring peace to a searching heart. If you are seeking God, it is good to study what others have said... but the only true answer you will ever receive, the only thing that will stop your heart from questing, is communion with God. This is because God is not something that can be understood in the mind... it is not something that can be analyzed, broken down into endless pieces and rules, and then put into a safe category. God is that which exceeds all contradictions and explanations; in a sense, it is the ultimate paradox... and yet it is so very, very real. The reason why so many people have trouble seeing God is because we live so close to it, it's hard to pull back and see what's really in front of us... but just because we can't see it doesn't stop it from existing.
If you seek God, then pray. It is very simple. Pray through the heart, and you will be given God's peace... and eventually, you won't need to look anymore, because you'll see that God is right there inside of you.
You are so right in calling God the ultimate paradox. Would we say God is the most illogical or the most logical? I don't think God would give us something completely illogical to believe in. It may be something that seems illogical because we have not yet come to a place in our growth to see it as logical. There are a lot of religions with interpretations that are hard to believe because they are unreasonable. And many religious beliefs have been purified by discoveries in science.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is the heart in which we find God. It is communion with His Spirit, having a personal relationship with the Creator. You can read all the Holy Scriptures in the world, have all that knowledge in your head, but is nothing without love.
Reason has been very important in the building of a just world, but of course it must be founded in love.