The following story is taken by
Christos Yannaras’ book Elements of Faith
stating the fact that God exists. Many today wish to understand, on an
intellectual and rational level, the existence of God.
“It is as if we are walking in
the desert and suddenly encounter in front of us a house; we are then obliged
to accept the fact that someone has built it – houses do not grow, nor are they
erected by themselves in the desert. But we do not know who the builder is.
From the characteristics of the building we can assume a few properties or
distinctive features of the builder, whether he has good taste, for instance,
or enough skill in the application of statistics, or even what needs he was
serving with the rooms he built. But his face remains unknown to us; we have
never met him, we do not know him. Surely he exists but he is inaccessible to
our immediate knowledge”[1].
[1]
Yannaras, Christos, Elements of Faith –
An Introduction to Orthodox Theology, (Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1991), p.7
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