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 together with your theories.
-But how do you know about God. He is not part of nature. He has created nature, but you cannot find
+But how do you know about God? He is not part of nature. He has created nature, but you cannot find
 God directly by looking at nature. You can find him by the way it is created, as you learn about an artist
 from his paintings or statues or buildings.
+To learn about God, the holy spirit is very important. He is an indispensible part of this learning
+process. Without the active help of the spirit the mere human mind will find the core Christian
+statements rather strange and unclear and reject them as being a strange set of fancy things.
+But with the active presence of the Spirit of God, a deep and thorough clarity comes into our life.
+There is a lot to say here about this. Life and death, purity, love, truth, humility, goals and desire ...
+all this clarifies itself in the light of the eternal God through his spirit. There is a lot to
+gain and to explore ...
+What does it mean concretely? It means that you need to start to talk to God if you encounter
+problems with understanding him. You need to ask him to help you through the holy spirit. You can call
+it prayer, and it is prayer, but the core point is that you address him and ask him. "God, please
+help me to understand. Please send your spirit into my life. I am open for you, I want to know!"
+If you continue to search, you will find and he will open everything to you!
 (Roland Potthast)
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