it's derived from faith, not reason or logic. you can only reason yourself so far until a leap of faith into the unknown is required. it's about humility, about admitting you can't have all the answers to the mysteries from our limited human perspective. faith is not an abandonment of reason, it's an extension beyond its limits. you can reason your way to god using deductive logic like the 5 ways of thomas aquinas, but exercises like this presuppose the validity of logic. ultimately, everything is a belief predicated on agreed upon axioms. you're not going to arrive at god via philosophy or mathematics, you will arrive their through faith, and it must be sincere and unwavering. if you insist on trying to philosophize your way there, it should be via negativa. you can't prove what god is, only what he isn't. just try it. try abandoning all attempts at finding absolute proof, instead pray directly to god and say i believe in you without a single doubt, i believe you are real and i want you to be a part of my life, and i'm sorry for doubting you and sorry for hurting you, please forgive me. you're putting the cart before the horse, it begins with faith and the life changing transformation happens after this. treat it like it's a gamble. are you willing to bet your soul that god is only a fairy tale? are you comfortable living a life with no moral standards? do you strive for something greater, so great that you can't even fathom it? do you wish to be on the level of great thinkers like newton, descartes, and st. augustine, meister eckhart? wanna know what it feels like to have a faith that is unshakeble? do you seek firm resoluteness? ya just gotta believe anon, it could change your life.
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