12-29-2012, 09:15 PM
(12-29-2012, 08:43 PM)TheEternal Wrote: What exactly does it mean to believe in the One God to you?
My friend, there is little need to capitalize the word one, when referring to God. Simply, it is helpful to capitalize god when referring to the one God. I mention this only because I see the trend of title casing in reference to the creator of the universe. It is silly, he cares not about how we discuss his nature or for what social rules we create to reference his true essence.
Do you believe in grass? Or the stars? Do you believe in a full moon on a midsummer's eve? Do you believe in the universe in all of its glory from what you have seen from your own eyes and heard with your own ears?
I see the grace of God each and every day. I need not more words to reference his glory. I glorify him in my own work, for which I believe it is important.
Have you ever gone back to the basics and wondered why it is that you are here on earth? Why you have the breath of life? Did you choose it? It is not possible to know for sure.
All I can profess about my own belief in him is that I see with my eyes each day the undeniable proof of the one God. Does a farmer sow seeds and abandon his plot before the Fall? Did a farmer plow the land in order to make it fertile for his crop to grow?
Is it necessary to plant two seeds for every tree on the earth? No my friend, they grow from a single seed into a tree that makes many more. So is the way of the one God.
The universe did not come out of nowhere, it came out of his will. Whether we are the crop or not, we are a part of his grace, and we must do what it is we think is great and important work beside our fellow man. We have no promise of a divine reward. We do, however, have hope for the future benefactors of our good and great work here on earth.
This is my belief.