Reply #25: There are many paths [View All]

[kwassa]

and I am open to most of them.

The key to a belief in the divine, however, is simply the recognition that there is something greater than our individual selves, and our individual powers, as self-reliant as we might be. A belief in the divine does not contradict self-reliance. It is simply a way of contemplating that which is beyond our ability to definitely know at this time. Since knowledge is infinite, this will be true for all mankind at any point in history, that there is a always great deal more that we can't definitely know now.

To have faith is to believe there is value in this contemplation.

I see most religions as approximations of a theory of the nature of the greater unknown at the time they were made.