One of the problems people have with believing in God is the contradiction of an ALL POWERFUL God that is CONSTRAINED or the concept of a God who IS LOVE allowing the capacity for evil that is in the world. That thought process seems founded on the lofty assumption that mankind has the capacity to understand what it means to be "God". A true in-dept understanding of GOD or Godness seems highly allusive if that understanding is based on the comparison to the things that humanity typically "worships" as God.
Why do we so desperately long to worship what we are not... or what we don't have... or what we can't keep? Why is a God who is like us, who loves us and actually gets us so unappealing to the masses.
An anthropomorphic God is more than an attempt to relate to what we can't possibly understand beyond a personal experience or the capacity to believe without experience. If God is real, there MUST be a part of God in us and a part of us in God. But God must be more. More than a intangible, invisible person...but WHAT?
This is the true challenge of faith; to believe in God without needing to reconcile the contradictions of our existence in the world that "God made". Why is the concept of an entity that is absent of contradiction so alluring? Would any all "good" being be able understand us? How could we EVER understand it?
The only way we can explore the God around us and in us is when we have the courage for contradiction. And there is no place with any greater contradiction than the human soul. Our soul, the result of an eternal spirit being intertwined and muddled with a mortal body, a limited perspective and a finite experience of an infinite existence... what a contradiction.
Considering this, maybe acknowledging God inside your heart is a great place to begin the expedition of seeking God.
Take courage.
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