OK, its Sunday… Sunday being traditionally a Christian day of Worship. Many of the readers of this blog are not religious in any way, and don’t see “faith” or God as being rational…. and I can understand this, but I chose not to follow that school of thought, I choose to be a Mystic Anglican Christian. I know my beliefs, I don’t need to have faith because I feel.
To me, God is a rational thing because I define God as being the Explanation and the Being of Love itself. If you have ever experienced love then you will know that its a really odd sensation. There are many forms of love of course (and in Greek there are many ways of saying these forms of love), one form of love seems like it springs from nowhere, another form of love is the love for and from family and friends. These are unexplainable things, but they exist, and we need love. To me, God is the Being and the Explanation of Love.
Another rational thing is Life. Yes there are scientific explanations of Life, but who developed the equations and algorithms for the scientific explanations. Scientists follow these equations and algorithms with faith. God is the Being and Explanation of Life and Scientific Explanations.
Another rational thing is synchronicity and power. Isn’t it weird how everything just works together, synchronised, flowing with energy and vigour. God is the Being and Explanation of Life and Synchronicity and Power, which we can see within Nature.
To me, the following is what God is not:
- A guy in the sky
- Somebody that has created everything in the world and universe within seven (literal) days
Now for a section on Interreligion:
And another question is, why so many religions? My answer is: we are just following the same entity really, no matter what religion or path. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Pagans, or whatever, we all see that there is something else in the world that is unexplainable in human thought and speech - I say we are all following the same thing, doesn’t matter if you go to a Church, a Mosque, a Synagogue, a Temple or even if you stay at home and do praise or ritual.
Now for a conculsion:
So I hope that I have given some rationality to those who feel that God isn’t rational, and I have also given my thoughts that we should accept others. It all comes down to: try to understand others religions/faiths/beliefs/creeds/rules-of-life, and get along with each other.
These are my thoughts for today.
Today is for the following feasts within Christianity:
- St Simon and St Jude (Western Christianity)
- Nostra Aetate - 1965 (Roman Catholicism - Christianity)
- St Job of Pochayiv (Eastern Christianity)
- St Godwin of Stavelot (Western Christianity)
- St Fidelis of Como (Christianity)
- St Edsige”Edward the Confessor” (Western Christianity)
- Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Christianity)
- Abdias of Babylon (Christianity) <- First Bishop of Babylon, consecrated by St Simon and St Jude
Love and Blessings,
Daniel
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2 responses so far ↓
Hi Daniel,
Wow! This is a change from the Daniel I once knew
I have a couple of comments:
You said: “I know my beliefs, I don’t need to have faith because I feel.”
Isn’t that a contradiction? I’m not sure I understand the difference between believing because of faith and believing because of a feeling. Faith is believing in something without sufficient evidence or with no evidence. If you choose to believe in something based on a ‘feeling’ isn’t this essentially the same thing?
You said: “Scientists follow these equations and algorithms with faith.”
I would disagree with this statement. And I’m a little taken aback to see you have written this. I disagree for two reasons:
1) There i