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reason and a basic understanding of our world. | 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 |
of our understanding of this world. Let us look into this, and also try to understand the role of | of our understanding of this world. Let us look into this, and also try to understand the role of | ||
faith for human life. | 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 | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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