Logic demands faith to accommodate a definition of God in order to deal with everything that can be known that we do not yet know. Geoffrey Berg has written a book, the God Paradox, disproving the existence of God. I'll probably get around eventually to reading his book so I can disprove his disproofs. On this subject everyone starts out and ends on the same square, convincing themselves, which is after all why we speak anything at all in the first place. I wager his motivations, deep down inside his spirit, is he suspects there is something to disprove. He is seeking balance like everyone one of us. His title particularly gives away his preconceptions. The one issue usually avoided is any possible definition of God. In an early scan of a review of his effort I detect no attempts to define God yet and it should have been at the fore front. Of course, if God could be proved then there would be no God. One may define God, and we should always define our terms according to Ayn Rand even tho she did not prominentize her definition, but this is not to say we can cancel out a paradox. If God could be proved then there is no requirement of faith. Even the sometimes patronized ancient writers knew that much. God is a Spirit, just like many other unseen forces routinely referred to by physicists, and since there are many spirits the Spirit of God is usually capitalized to distinguish the inaugural spirit. So since God is usually personified as a Spirit, especially by ancient writers, they knew we can only please God through Faith. This was their way of saying that God, the personifier of Existence, is out front of us beyond our knowledge. Our knowledge is so limited as to be ludicrous compared to all that can be known. When we learn anything new it is a given we will learn that there is even more to be learned than we suspected previous to any new knowledge. Our expanding ignorance of all the facts forces us to operate on expanding faith. There is power in the spirit space, as the unseen space, and the ancient writers knew we could achieve anything we put our mind toward. Well, we've all proved that more than once, haven't we? Davin
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