The love of Jesus inspires people every day. The love of Jesus makes followers feel happy, animated, and powerful. From this view, life becomes a beautiful experience with an incredible potential…but every finding and/or disclosure should be informed by faith.
Earth and heaven seems to merge when someone feels that God is near. He/she can see God’s world with inner eyes that nobody taught to use but indubitable are worked with as a bridge to reach God and feel His care and love. Outside, the surroundings emerge different too. Every place looks as previously drawn with a pencil and that now is being taken to its development…and the soul bursts with joy. The body rejoices while the individual remains as witness of that experience seeing how his/her body and senses are caught and come to be happy captives too.
But as William James says: “…religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thing that it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.” James’ differentiation between ways to manifest inner beliefs is clear.
Faith as the universal tool of believers marks the most suitable approach to any religious experience. Paul in a letter to his beloved son Timothy: 2 Timothy 1:12, expresses his joy since his faith relied on God when tribulations come. Paul clearly knows in Whom he have trusted, Jesus, Who will guard Paul’s life until “…that day” as he says in the letter.
Lastly, theologians clarify that faith is first a move of God, Who impels men to turn to Him. Thus, Theology, the science of faith as an answer to God, is based on faith at the foundation of methods used to support its hypothesis, methods that differ from those used by human sciences to prove human theorems. Faith is the necessary tool to approach religious experiences, the study of theology, and all kind of interaction with a transcendent world.
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