Reply #87: Some Crucial Questions [View All]

[ThorOfMidland]

I appreciate the critical questions you have raised here, truly getting at the heart of things. In your reply are the implicit questions of proving truth and the nature of belief.

Can the truth about God be proven? Is not the truth of God only revealed in the present? How would we prove the present, what is happening now, the immensity, the enormity, the timelessness of it? Not the truth about a past event, that is circumstances, facts based in time, easily demonstrated, but truth rather about God, the timeless? Can this exist, come into being through proof, which requires time? Can this, the presence of God, exist in time, in the sense of the movement of the past, present and future? Or is truth, God, the timeless, or whatever we call it, only witnessed in the present, when the concepts of the past and future fall away for the fiction that they are? We should ask ourselves this question deeply, if we should know anything of that which is timeless, which cannnot be proven, but only seen in this moment.

Also, if you bear with me, another question is that of belief and its relationship to truth. Does the truth require belief or does belief deny truth? Can truth even be believed? What believes? What is the thing that believes? The mind believes, right? The selfish mind courts and coddles belief, hords and clings to it for proof, does it not? What does the self, the mind have to do with God? Is this, belief, with all its underlying fears and doubts, the very denial of God? What shred of fear or doubt, or rather belief, is required for truth?; Can belief even exist in the presence of God?