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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You end with a great story.

Because to the skeptic who applies reason to all the evidence he can find, it is just a beautiful dream.[/quote]

This is the OP.  Thoughtful post.  You gave me a lot to think about.

As to your question, I can only speak for myself, for when I did not have faith.  I "wished" to be my own absolute authority.  I thought all the other consequences were worth the "freedom" to do as I pleased in this life.

Very recently, I recognized my "wish" in the Christian account of the Fall.  The first humans were so close to God, their reason and will participated in eternal law .  The temptation they faced was:  Do you trust that God's will is best for you?  Could you do better?  Is He holding you back from even greater happiness?  [i]Do you want to decide for yourselves what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil?[/i]  Do you want to be the Absolute Authority, and answer only to yourself?  Do you want to be like God?

Pride.  Obedience.  Why humans turned away from their Creator at the beginning.  And why I turned away some years ago.  And why I still doubt sometimes.

That's where the will comes in.  Faith is a gift, but you need to be willing to receive it.  One day, I said, in my mind, "God, I don't know if you exist.  I think you might only be a story.  But I'm not certain.  If you do exist, and you are who you are supposed to be, I want the Truth.  If you are the Truth, please, I need your help."

That was my test of the "God hypothesis."  (But you can't demand miracles (which, even when they happen, are not "proof" of God) and you can't give a timetable.  That's demanding God to be your servant, when, if He is real, He is your King.)

And I'll be totally honest.  I did not get the answer I imagined.  My life was turned upside down.

If I were going to dream up my own God, He would be much more tame and lax than the Christian God.  ("After all, he's not a tame lion.")  But that's just me.

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I don't think the Christian God is a beautiful dream.  Perfect justice would be quite demanding when it finally happened.[/quote]

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