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Personal Belief in God

Any discussion of a personal theology begins with the fundamental question: do I believe in God? The answer is either a simple "yes" or "no." This is not a question that permits equivocation. Yet we do encounter equivocation. Increasingly, Americans and Europeans identify themselves as "spiritual" rather than "religious" without identifying the difference between the two. Those who take a New Age approach to religion may say "yes, but not in the traditional sense" when asked about their belief in God. Or "no, not like an old man who created everything, but more of a power that unifies everything." The title of this essay is "My Current Theology" and currently yes, I believe in God.

The reason why I believe in God is more difficult to explain. Simply put, I believd in God because I am not ready to embrace humanism or to live my life as an atheist. I was raised in a society and culture where God is a part of daily life in ways that are subtle and real, including "In God We Trust" on money, and it is difficult to move away from such beliefs. I would not argue that my belief is based on anything more than faith in what I have been taught and even what I have experienced. One cannot prove the existence of God through science, or there would be no religious wars, nor various religions that worship in so many different ways.

As I struggle with my belief, I realize that I do so in large part because of the nature that I ascribe to God and belief in God. Here, I have accepted a large degree of uncertainty. I believe that God is neither male nor female, and I believe that God does not have a human form. Beyond that, I have no real understanding of the nature of God, and this causes me no concern. For me, the concept of God·the nature of God·is beyond my feeble understanding as a human being. I have difficulty understanding calculus, how can I expect to understand something that may well have created the universe, all tha...

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