“If you believe in God, you do
not do so because some foundational institution guarantees his existence. You
believe him because his person, the personal existence of God, gives birth to
your trust. His works and his historical “activity”, his interventions within
history, make you want a relationship with him…
…At whatever level or degree,
faith is an event and experience of relationship, a road radically different
from intellectual certainty and “objective” knowledge. If we wish to know the
God of the biblical tradition, the God of the Church, we must search by the
right road, the road of faith. Logical “proofs” for his existence, the
objective attempts of apologetics, the historical trustworthiness of the
sources of the Christian tradition, can be useful aids in order that the need
for faith be born within us. But they do not lead to faith, nor can they
replace it”[1].
[1]
Yannaras, Christos, Elements of Faith –
An Introduction to Orthodox Theology, (Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1991),
p.12-13
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