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 reason and a basic understanding of our world.
-But what is part of this world? What is our idea of all that is? Human history had various components
+But what is part of this world? What is our idea of all that is? Human history always had various components
 of our understanding of this world. Let us look into this, and also try to understand the role of
 faith for human life.
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-**  ...**
+** My Faith ...**
+Christian faith is the invitation to discover God as a personal vis-a-vis. God is the origin and source
+of all what is. He is personal, he wants to talk to you, to relate to you, to be your partner and your
+"father in heaven". Many terms, images and phrases are used to describe this relationsip.
+For humans today it is possible to live their life without God. That has always been the case. We see
+life without God back in the earliest human manuscripts. We also find the struggle of faith in these
+manuscripts. It is highly exciting! Why? Since this God described in the bible is holy. We find an insight
+in these books, which from the very beginning - as long as you can trace anything back in history -
+communicates the image of a holy God, who started it all.
+Justice and the ability to judge ideas and actions is one of the characteristic human features. The idea
+of a holy God is strongly linked to this ability. We know what truth is. We know justice. We know love.
+We know what reliability and care are. We also know hatred, ignorance and violence. We know it all from
+human experience. The biblical books have a very clear idea of the role of God in this.
+You can start with a completely agnostic or even atheistic world view. No problem for me - I myself started
+my spiritual journey with basic questions and without much assumptions. But then, let us discover what is
+said about God in the bible. Let us discover what faith is about - not a twisted strange image of faith,
+but the biblical idea of faith, trust, true humility and true mercy. And then let us ask what is real,
+what realitiy has to give us. We might well discover that this creation is more than just a bunch of
+natural laws, that there is this God which is proclaimed in the biblical books. And we might discover something
+unbelievable and fantastic, ... come and start this journey of discovery!
 (Roland Potthast)
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