"If we cannot reduce talk about God to anything else, or replace it, or prove it false, then perhaps God is as real as anything else." Charles Taylor
Each person, whether he believes in God or not, will find at certain points in his life an interest in religion and Faith. In my case, I have developed a lifelong interest in the Christian Faith and have seen certain problems in my life in a religious point of view. I believe the same can be true to every individual whether he has committed himself to any formal religion or not.
This argument can bee seen in an ethical standpoint. Religion has always something to do with the rightness and wrongness of our actions. Religion and ethics should be put together. As long as man lives his life and make decisions, life can always be viewed in a religious fervor. And so a starting point about this attitude is the premise that human beings should have a certain way at looking at certain problems in life; especially his moral problems.
The Christian Faith Encompass this view in the following ways:
a. People have the capacity for both love and hate, a moral sense and capacity for sin, and God has posed standards of right and wrong. People have freewill and may choose to act according to or in contradiction to the moral standards of God.
b. God is a loving God and he understands our problems.
c. The solution to these problems comes in accepting God's purpose, loving God and our fellow human beings for the sake of God.
The doctrine of freewill and the problem in life is depicted in the Bible where Adam and Eve were punished for eating from the tree of knowledge which they could have chosen otherwise. Thus, the problems of life are just a consequence of our wrong deeds or the nature of things as God has set for man.
Thus, the only way for man to find value or meaning in the world is to live the right way and establish a compromise with the world and life in general in accordance to God's will. One who lives this way will see the world as a miracle. Your fate lies in God and he helps you find the answer to the problem of life.
It is normal for some of us to be worried about being morally good or even perfect because we were made in the image of the Creator. A person who feels this way will have great respect for sincere religious conviction.
The tendency for people who are not committed to Faith and Religion is to see this view as nonsense. But men who are not committed to Faith or any formal Religion may nevertheless be committed to ethics and there is a thin line between Faith and Ethics. Theirs may be just a case of unexamined Faith which needs more reflection and meditation. And while it's true that these truths are hard to conceive, it doesn't mean that they are not real or important. Quite the contrary; the things which we cannot conceive or see directly are what's most important.
Faith also enable us to endure the pains in life. Hope in the face of adversity is an integral part of faith and something that justifies in resolving the problems and conflicts in life. Life can be challenging and dressed up in trials. And these trials only describe what we are to do and Faith can justify those actions.
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