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In a small group I'm a part of, we've been reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. The first part addresses common doubts about God/Christianity and the second part addresses reasons for faith. Our last discussion was over "Clues for God," and gave some arguments for the existence of God and talked about some of the arguments against his existence. Keller opens the chapter with "Though there cannot be irrefutable proof for the existence of God, many people have found strong clues for his reality..." (131). God cannot be proved to exist or not; it will have to come back to faith (Hebrews 11:6). This is not an empty or blind faith, the clues when added together can present a convincing argument. But is it really our end goal to prove his existence; why is it so important?

"For what we need to know, of course, is not just that God exists, not just that beyond the steely brightness of the stars there is a cosmic intelligence of some kind that keeps the whole show going, but that there is a God right here in the thick of our day-by-day lives who may not be writing messages about himself in the stars but in one way or another is trying to get messages through our blindness as we move around down here knee-deep in the fragrant muck and misery and marvel of the world. It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get." (Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat, 47)

Forgive the lengthy quote, but when I first came across it, my mind latched onto it. Your thoughts?

"I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me"