@littlehillschurch Hello again @Gustodon. To answer your question, several things could be said. I'll try to take the approach I think might be most helpful to your inquiry, but I'm always happy to have a good exploration of #faith and #doubt and such. I'm starting out with an oversimplified philosophical approach for the bones of conversation.
1.) As philosophers over time have asserted, it is good and reasonable to look for a #FirstCause, etc. I deeply appreciate #ThomasAquinas's Five Ways.
2.) The question then is what sort of "#God" fits the deity of #1. I think only a few of the things/people/entities people have worshipped or do worship could even possibly fit #1. (E.g. Zeus could not, because "he" was not first, etc.)
3.) Of that much reduced set, I believe a mix of historical points speak well of the God of the #Bible. This point could be expanded a lot.
4.) Archetypally, I believe the Bible speaks to things our psyche expects in the most complete way of the available options. C.S. Lewis wrote well on this following, as I do, some of the observations of Carl Jung.
5.) Evidentially, the Bible describes our world's fallen, broken condition in a way that conforms to objective observation. I've often said if I didn't think there was a God, I'd be a Theravada Buddhist. But because I affirm the things above, Christianity speaks to the same sort of "suffering" but with the hope of a solution beyond cessation of existence because of the existence of a personally relatable First Cause.
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That's the rational answer. The personal answer is different, but coherently related. I believe I've encountered the living God and He is the one who has enabled me to believe, not the reverse.
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