Ok. I’ll show how out of touch I am. It is amazing to me how a “religion” discussion takes form on this board. Page after page, word after word. As a man of faith, I wonder how and should I enter this conversation. I choose to give my simplistic approach and get out.
True faith and belief is never found through intellect (page after page, word after word). It is always a personal search of the heart. Yes Brisket, how you live and not what you know. Well what in the hell are things of the heart. I can’t really express it but I can believe “heart” reality through my life experience. My greatest example today. Jesus says in Matthew that if you want to know him you need to come as the children who were in his presence. Children? Surely you jest Jesus. All a child has to offer is love and trust. I am getting to live this truth today. My “sweet girl” four year old granddaughter has brought me an increased awareness of my spiritual relationship to God. She brought nothing into this world to build our relationship...except the most important things. She loves me and she trusts me. The one word I cherish above all others is when I hear her say “Poppa”. What did I bring to our relationship? I had to prove that I was worthy of her love and her trust. I am humbled and frightened with that supreme responsibility not from my intellect, but from my heart.