Obstacles to Faith: Proof and Reason

In our uncertain world, the ways of our own minds create the greatest rifts. Once we fall to the depths of requiring proof of all things, we reduce ourselves to machines. We lose sight of one simple fact: not everything can be proven empirically.

Some seek proof that God exists. Doing this denies his existence. Faith, by definition, is belief without proof. One does not ask God to appear before him so that he may be sure of God's existence. Such a demand is presumptuous.

Even so, society indoctrinates us to accept scientific theory as fact. Anthropologists still have not found the "missing link" which connects the human race to the ape. Even geneticists are forced to admit that there is a two percent difference between the genes of man and those of other primates. Yet, American schools teach this theory as fact. The presence of God seems a far easier pill to swallow than the supposition that millions of years ago apes became humans.

What proof exists that one plus one equals two? There is none. Man created a system of numeric values ages ago. In this system, the number "two" follows "one." This is so only because a choice was made to call it such as opposed to "glop." Therefore, one plus one equals two only because we say it does. This is not proof. If you believe that one plus one equals two, then you've already found something to have faith in. All that remains is to expand this faith to include a belief in God.