/lit/ - Literature

I will never believe or disbelieve in God on the basis of dialectics, and there will never be an argument good enough to demonstrably prove him to be existent or nonexistent. The struggle of the mind vs the divine mind is that a finite, material brain could never even being to fathom the mind of a being infinitely grander in every scope.

The only option is to believe, not to know. For all intents and purposes, to know would be to undeniably possess the truth of whether God exists or not, and no one can claim this if they are intellectually honest. In the end it must come down to Kierkegaardian a leap of faith. Many have made cogent and detailed arguments both for God's existence or his lack thereof, yet dialectics always guarantees that there will always be a complementary argument on the other side one day that will poke a hole in that very same argument.

Faith, then, is like intellectual skydiving, in that you must only trust that your parachute will work as you plummet towards the earth. The parachute may have been tested and refined countless times before that plane took off, but ultimately the only time it really matters as to whether or not the parachute works is when you're using it.