If you know god, then what?

Nathan said:
I am more comfortable with that. Religions that believe in deities can't all be right, but they could certainly all be wrong.

I see creation as being real, that requires a God, as such I believe God is real. Religions are messy, and fraught with self-serving doctrine.

Edit: Just for the record: I am a Christian, in the sense that I believe in Jesus and His teachings. Some Groups within Christianity have strayed, and like to call themselves "Christian", but don't really embrace the teachings of Christ. Jesus foresaw that.
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understand and I pretty much agree. You either know him or you do not. I know him, he knows me. I stray, I will suffer but he is there for me. I try everyday. I hear him. He talks to me in verse. He questions me thru questions. He is my base, my grounding. My guide thru my life.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Since no one really knows, if we act like we know, or we have accepted an explanation from without, it is wasted energy. We only find life while living within it.

Experiencing life does not need knowing a beginning or end.
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I see knowing as not a necessity, although we are often preoccupied with knowing, sometimes on the order of obsession. This is true for the superstitious as well as the cosmologist. But if you absolutely need to know, conduct the search with reason. It may not get you where you want to go, but it's the most reliable thing we have.

My dog isn't preoccupied with knowing. He actually resists knowing, but I can through patience and repetition teach him things I want him to know: "You can chase the deer out of the yard, but you must not leave the yard." He knows this. I don't think he knows why. I doubt that "why" has ever crossed his mind. He doesn't seem to obsess on things. Wasted obsession seems to be a human trait.
 

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