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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm about a year late discovering this thread, and perhaps there are other similar ones I have missed.  One reaction I have is that the fact that I missed it is proof that there is no God (that's tongue in cheek, of course).

In a more serious vein, I have gone back through most of the 60 pages to see what was said about the issue of the mixing of different issues in the word "God", such as creation and morality, which I don't see as connected.

What I would really like to hear from a believer is how you think that there can be any kind of communication, or how you can have any understanding of an entity whose relationship to us is not comparable to a dog's to its master, or even ant to a human being, but perhaps more like a bacterium to Einstein.  I can't see how one who professes to accept the Majesty of God can be so lacking in humility as to think you can comprehend what that Entity "thinks", or even believe that a human word like "thinks" is relevant.

Hope I'm not too late to resurrect this thread (please pardon the pun).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [/quote]

But that is the greatest story ever told...except that it is true.

God created us in His image, with that most exceptional of attributes:  free will.  He didn't have to create us at all, and He most certainly did not need to give us the freedom to love Him or reject Him.  But He did.

So of course our understanding of God is going to be limited.  Even beginning to contemplate Him is going to blow our minds.  But He wrote His Word on our hearts, and our knowledge of Him is a combination of faith and reason, revelation and logic.

For me, it always begins with morality.  And I'm not alone:

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/22/prominent-atheist-blogger-converts-to-catholicism/?iref=allsearch[/quote]

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