Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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