Faith in God

To understand something, one must make sense of it. It is impossible to bring closer to the blind the beauty of colors, just as the deaf enjoy music is inaccessible; imagine that he is at a concert. He looks and doesn’t understand anything. Some pull strings on the strings, blow them into wooden or tin instruments, others wave their hands over them. Think: Adults and behave like young children. The same thing can happen to a person who accidentally gets into a scarf where chess is played. After a while, he will think. How can you waste time like this? To think for long minutes that a figure should stand in one place or another. As if it didn’t matter. It is also possible to wonder how a fisher can sit by the water for hours to buy a fish and whatever he wants. How can 50,000 be upset that the ball did not end in the goal but next to it? It doesn’t matter. This will change the situation in the world or stop the sun from shining. Such criticism reveals that the person in question does not make sense for these things. If the deaf person made sense, he would understand what musicians do with their instruments, and the football spectator knows that it is not whether the ball ends up in the goal or outside it. And the fisherman is not primarily concerned with food, but with something else. Something similar can be experienced by a person who happens to find himself in a church. For example, at Holy Mass. He listens to talk about eternal life, the resurrection, and he doesn’t understand it at all. He asks how to believe today still. Some explain it as believers are fools who cannot explain nature’s laws, so they believe in some god. Or that believers are afraid and therefore pray. But he who can approach this question impartially knows that faith does not arise from ignorance of the laws of nature, nor fear. Many people have come to faith through their great knowledge of nature. Not out of fear or calculation but out of knowledge. The fact that believers are not fools, nor are primitives, shows their works of art and culture that enrich our lives. Faith gives answers to the basic questions of life. Who am I? What is the meaning of life? No science can answer these questions. Science examines and knows only what can be measured, weighed, seen. Science states that our Earth is part of a universe where the laws of nature apply. These laws were and are here. Science did not create them. It’s just discovering them. To the question of where matter, the universe, and nature’s laws come from, we can give only two answers. The matter has always been here. God gave matter and laws. We know from experience that infidelity cannot be a support for the man. We know from experience that many unbelievers have called for or referred to God’s help in difficult life trials. It is not strange that we do not see God. There are many such facts around us. For example, many denied the existence of bacilli until they saw them under a microscope. The telescope has shown us new worlds that no one had known before. The human eye and other senses capture only the time of the reality that is around us. God is too great for us to embrace him with our knowledge. We recognize him from his work. A teacher spoke to the children. The astronauts did not find any God in the universe; they did not see. So there is no God. It’s like a fly saying. I was walking around the painting, but I didn’t find a painter anywhere. So there is no painter. Man wants to give God some idea. Therefore, the artists liked to paint him as a noble older man with a long white chin sitting in the throne’s clouds. God does not look like this. These are just human ideas. And if someone breaks them, it does not mean that God does not exist. Any ideas trying to explain God materially are completely wrong. There are many who say. There must be something above us. Yes, there really must be something. Why don’t we go further in our thinking? It is enough to give the word someone instead of the word something, that someone other than God. He is the Lord, not a servant. It is wrong for someone to say. Prove to me that you and I will believe in You. We should speak humbly. I would like to know you, Lord, give me the gift of faith. God responded to man’s desire to know him. It’s the Bible. The Bible was written gradually. It is a letter from the Father. Surely, there are people who critically examine it, looking for everything possible and impossible. If we receive a letter from our parents, we do not look for spelling mistakes, nor do we criticize the stylistic level. The content is important to us because someone who loves us wrote it to us. The Bible does not want to teach us about the natural sciences. He wants to tell us where a person is from, the meaning of his life, and how we should live so that we do not lose our lives. A man came from God’s will. God wanted to share his happiness with someone. And so, we became his children. We have a body made of earth dust. But reason and free will were given to us in the image of God. Therefore, a person never satisfies his bodily needs. One longs for something higher. Faith teaches us that if we desire justice, well, beauty, we desire God, who is their source. Only when our earthly life is fulfilled, and only when we meet God will we be able to experience all this in full.