To believe means : to consider an hypothesis as real.

By definition belief is not certainty.

It's a conviction based on various factors : prejudice, conditioning, intuition…

When you experience something, you don't say you believe in it, you speak about the experience you have of it.

For example, you don't say "I believe in sun". You would find absurd to be asked the question. On the other hand, you can talk about the experience you have of it.

If you like the mountain, and somebody asks you in earnest if you believe in the existence of the mountains, you will assume that this person is not in his right mind or that he lives in a far away place…

But anyway, you will be able to talk to this person about your experience of the mountain.

Belief is a supposition, knowledge is an experience.
And God is far beyond supposition !

Many people cling to their beliefs thinking they are the requisite for a truth seeker. They are mistaken.

The right attitude is to seek to know, and not to adhere to a dogma, a belief.

Even if your beliefs are founded, if they're not the fruit of your own experience, they mislead you.

It's as if you were talking all the time of the pleasure given by orgasm you whereas you have never experienced it. You would end in convincing yourself that it is the fruit of your experience, and you would no longer try to discover it by yourself.

But if one day you live this experience of love, then you will realize it has nothing to do with what you imagined, what you believed.

The reason is simple.

From your beliefs, your mind creates their objet.
Imagination rests on your real-life experience in this world.

But imagination can't reveal what doesn't stem from a past or present experience.

If you've heard about mystical experience - samadhi - you will imagine it from your own experience.

But if one day you succeed in entering samadhi, you will understand how far from reality was your idea of this experience.

God can't be the fruit of your imagination. God can only be revealed to man by christ, by the self within each of us.

That is better to say :

" I am convinced that God exists but I don't know, because I didn't have the experience."

Or :

"I am convinced that God doesn't exist, but I don't know because there is no evidence to prove it."

Don't forget that the most fervent believers were the ones who judged and crucified Jesus-Christ !

Don't forget that in the name of their sacrosanct belief and with a hand on the Bible, they killed in an abominable manner the One they were supposed to welcome.

Don't forget that in the name of religious beliefs Man committed the greatest number of atrocities !

And why is it so ? Because belief makes you blind, deaf and stubborn.

If these so-called believers had had the courage to seek truth in their heart rather than in their book...

If these so-called believers had been more attentive to cast the first stone to themselves and to be their own judge before God, then they would certainly have acknowledged that Jesus was the Son, the Messiah.

But blinded by their own beliefs and bound by puerile and stupid dogmas, they murdered the One whose coming they were preaching.

I tell you, if these believers had done their own way of the cross, then, even if they had dealt with a blasphemer, they wouldn't have judged him nor condemned him.

For all the people who commune with God intimately know that we have no right of doing this.

Yes, you have to know it clearly, to believe in God is not to know God.

And knowing God, living in God is not a belief, it's a communion.

There is no hypothesis and no belief in this, just a reality to live in your everyday life.

It's for you to chose.

Your friend.

Amedee