Issues...

I've been thinking rather fervently lately: If I could single out an event to convince myself that a god exists, what would that be?

Surprisingly, the answer is ... nothing. No, I'm not going to state "oh, I can't pinpoint just one single event, God reveals Himself to me in many ways..."

That's ridiculous. (I used to differ...)

In fact, I'm going so far as to retract the statement I made in my previous post on God's gift of choice --- I'm having doubts over the matter, but that is another issue.

The point is...I can't recall any event where I could say with utmost confidence that it proved (at least to me) that God exists. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I DON'T believe in the existence of a god, or God.
That isn't true.

What I actually mean is that my faith is shaken from time to time by this question....and let's face it: Faith without a basis is pointless.

When you jump off a plane, your faith in the parachute is sustained by the fact that you have seen it work before. When you assign a task to a team member, your faith in him is because of something he had done before. Faith needs to be accompanied...no....SUSTAINED....by a basis.

After some soul-searching, I've arrived at the conclusion that all Christians, perhaps maybe all subscribers to religion, need to possess that one incident that convicts them of the religion's 'realness'. I fail to have mine.

Why is this so important?

In any circumstance, especially dire situations, we need to cling on to that hope that our god is able to bring us out of it... That the god we believe in has something in store for us after this life... That what we see and do for our faith is recognized and acknowledged and will not be in vain.
EVERYTHING boils down to the conviction that the god you believe in exists, otherwise, it is all naught.

It is the basis...and I'm still trying to find mine.

Sure, there have been situations where it might have seemed that God was there...but there is always the danger of attributing everything that happens to God. In particular, it removes and contradicts one of the most fundamental principles of Christianity --- Choice.

As it is, most of the situations that I've attributed to God can be easily explained away with other (plausible) reasons like: Coincidences, Luck, etc... Hardly a good argument for the intervention of a supreme being.

So I've made a pact (a silly one) with God....