In an email I received, there was talk about faith in God and also a group who gather who “truly love the Lord and are very interested in learning and growing in their faith in God and only want to learn about the truth.”
I found this interesting.
How do you put a gauge on your ‘faith’ in God? How do you grow that faith or learn more about the faith in God? What truth are they seeking of God?
What is being challenged, God or you?
The words faith and truth seem to be such honorable things to have towards God.
How does that work? How can you tell if someone has a bigger faith than you, or know more truths than you do? Is there a better religion to find this?
Of course I had to look up the meaning of Faith;
belief or trust: belief in, devotion to, or trust in somebody or something, especially without logical proof
- religion or religious group: a system of religious belief, or the group of people who adhere to it
- trust in God: belief in and devotion to God
“Especially without logical proof” stands out to me.
To have faith without logical proof is that without a direct experience? It seems that religions are asking you to believe in something without ‘logical proof’.
What is logical?
-sensible and based on facts: based on facts, clear rational thought, and sensible reasoning
- able to think rationally: able to think sensibly and come to a rational conclusion based on facts rather than emotion
- of philosophical logic: relating to philosophical logic
Based on facts, clear rational thought isn’t needed to have faith? Is that right? How can they want us to leave our clear and rational thoughts behind, to not think sensibly and not come to a rational conclusion based on facts rather than emotions.
It does seem to me, and this is my experience, that rational thinking or facts do get left behind, and it brings you in to a pretend world.
My childhood religion was based on ‘forgiveness’ of sins.
Of having the ‘faith’ that they indeed would be washed away.
It came to me shortly after discovering who my father was, that this religion had been ‘forgiving’ him all along. It (religion) had the power to erase or delete reality.
To believe or have faith in words erasing an action just seems impossible to believe in.
You really have to use your mind and conjure up a clean slate, even if your feelings are not so easily fooled.
And the sentiment is that if you can’t “forgive” you are worse than the original sinner! It is our duty to forgive, our duty to erase the actions of another. Do we really have that power?
To have faith in certain religions means to step further and further from the truth of life itself. When they have rituals and rules and words that can upright the fallen is weird to me.
If you look at my father alone, it is impossible to cure or heal or right his wrongs. They are done. The bells have been rung! He and he alone sit with his actions. His mind is very confused and no amount of forgiveness can unravel that mind. It will take years of work to correct that, and a willingness to do so.
Again, Martha Beck’s meaning of forgiveness rings more true, “Forgiveness is accepting the past cannot be changed.”
What are religions selling?
What is the actual application you are signing up for?
What is their connection with God that you have to go to them to get?
Where is God kept?
I know this may sound like sour grapes or the mental ramblings of a mental woman, but I am truly and indeed seeking to know what it is they are selling?
What I know is that reality wins only but 100% of the time.
That a confused mind does confusing things.
That when you clear your mind you clear your actions.
I am much more inclined to seek to broaden my awareness, to see and question more and more in reality and sit less and less in a pretend space of ‘faith’.
What I know is that reality is truth and truth is reality and both are God. I need no faith to know this.
It seems to me when I wasn’t in reality I needed faith, but once reality hit me smack in the face, religion and faith flew out the window. It was useless and pointless in the face of reality.
There was no amount of faith that could change what was.
No amount of forgiveness within me that would un-ring the bell that had been rung in my childhood.
It seems that religion takes the place of reality.
Faith to me is like a new F word.
It separates you from reality and logic.
We need new religions that are reality based, instead of ‘faith’ based.
Ironically I found God in the midst of Truth and Reality, where he was all along.
He and I were on the same page.
I saw what God saw.
The more aware I became the more I saw God everywhere, in fact there is nowhere where he isn’t.
To me there is only one choice, either God or Non-reality.
