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TESTIMONY ALERT

Is there a God?

That is Man's question, because that is the way Man was created.

Man was created to learn, to grow, to think beyond, to feel.

But in a world of scientific basis and thinking, our feelings have become obsolete.

Why has this happened?  Why have we deviated from the way that God works?

God in His true form is not visible, that's obvious.  But in the world we live in, He has to be visible, otherwise He's not real.

But can I just say how illogical that mentality is?

Because this life is a test to see if we can follow God without Him actually being physically present.  Because having the teacher tell you all the answers on the test while you're supposed to be the one taking the test makes no sense.

But God is a nice teacher.  He's made it an open-book test.  The problem is that we don't always know which book to use.

And that's certainly not His fault, it's ours.  Because God is so mysterious, and we all think so differently, that without Him actually helping us, we have a hard time understanding Him, which is why there are so many different views of Him.

How can you understand someone if you haven't actually taken the time to learn about that person?

You can hear what other people have said about that person, or even what other people heard the person say, but sometimes people are stupid.  People will make fun of certain people, lie about certain people, and hurt certain people, all for the enjoyment of confusing their peers.

But you can't listen to these people, because they don't know or understand God.

Because you won't get to know someone unless you talk to them personally.

Which leads me to another reason why God is a nice teacher; we can talk to Him.  Just as you can raise your hand to have a teacher come assist you, God can do the same.

Now instead of raising our hand, we pray.  But prayer is a very personal and quiet thing when using it to understand God.  

He's not going to be very loud and disruptive when He talks to you.

What if mid-test, your teacher just yelled from their desk, "HEY STEPHEN I THINK YOU SHOULD PUT DOWN C FOR NUMBER TWENTY SEVEN BECAUSE THATS LIKE TOTALLY THE RIGHT ANSWER HOMEBOY"

First of all, your name probably isn't Stephen, so that's one way why that's not like God, because He knows your name.  Second of all, God comes to you and whispers to you personally, because He wants to make sure that you understand.

But God probably won't give you what you want all of the time, because just as a teacher can only give you suggestions on how to answer a problem on your own, so it is with God.

God is the teacher that gives hints.

"Well why does He give hints, why can't He just give me the answer?"

BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PUT IN EFFORT TO MAKE YOURSELF STRONGER AND GOD HAS TO DEAL WITH SEVEN BILLION OTHER IMPERFECT PEOPLE SO YOU CAN AT LEAST MAKE IT EASIER ON HIM OKAY RANT OVER

Seriously, God's smarter than that.  He knows the whole point of sending you here, and He knows how to make you awesome.  And that process is not easy, because life isn't easy.

Life isn't easy because God isn't easy, and God created life.

Now back to my point of life being an open-book test, and us not knowing which book to use.  We have so many books and scriptures that give so many different views and perspectives of God, but they all are fairly similar in their purpose of trying to find God.  Whether you call Him God, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Messiah, or any other respectful title, you're still searching for the same Person.

Because like I said earlier, He's so mysterious, and we think so differently that it's hard for us to have one unified view of God.  But one day we will, and it'll all make sense.

Because as physical children, we naturally want to know more about our physical parents.

Our spiritual selves have the same curiosity for a reason; we have spiritual Parents.

Sorry to be super religious, but although I don't fully understand God and who He is, I really strongly believe that He exists. 

It just makes so much sense to me, and even if you don't believe in God, I hope you at least believe in something, because believing in something really unlocks the meaning of life.

Let me put it this way: Is seeing believing, or is believing seeing?

Because Man today works through the former, but God has always worked through the latter.

Which is why I like being a Latter-day Saint.