BELIEF
IN GOD
Believing in God: Belief in God, a
something more than human, is spiritually inherent in man. The feelings of man call
for a God; the desires make a demand for one, and thinking shows the necessity
for a God. it is asserted by high, up-to-date authority that thinking men
believe in God. It may be the all-pervading goodness of the universe; it may be
the inescapable laws of nature; it may be the identity behind the image; or it
may be the personal deity of revelation. At all events, a belief in God is an
accompaniment of thought.
BELIEF
IN A PERSONAL GOD
The organized is greater than the
unorganized, and man is organized intelligence or intelligence operating
through organism; he is the apex of earth life; he is more than the elements
that compose him; he is element plus organization; he is a unity of three: mind,
spirit, and mortal body. The inherent yearning to worship, i.e., to praise and
petition, cannot be consistently gratified by subordinating the superior to the
inferior which must be the case if the organized bows before the unorganized.
Consistency calls for either the personal God or a discontinuance of worship.
My thinking forbids my praying to any other than a personal God. (George H.
Brimhall, Long and Short Range Arrows [Provo, Utah: Brigham Young
University Press, 1934], 27)
