Placeholder and Bridge

Some think (i.e. some believe) that "faith" is only about "believing" in something without substantial, identifiable, understandable proof of its existence.

(I believe that) faith is more about knowledge in the absence of belief.
Religion is the form of our beliefs. Faith is the formlessness of our intuitive knowledge.

Faith is a placeholder for what we may or may not be able to describe; and a bridge to what may one day be provable and proven.

And if you choose not to have faith?

Ask yourself just a few questions:

• What if everything you have not learned or experienced yet, contains all the proof you could ever possibly want?
• What if you just haven't arrived at the proof yet?
• Would you feel any differently about life than you do now, if you were to be presented with indisputable proof of God and life beyond this one? Would you behave differently?
  
• Would you see others or your own life in a differently way?

Do you live your life as if there will never be proof of an all-encompassing Universal Intelligence?

Do you live you life as if you will find proof around some corner one day - proof that you would not have been prepared to recognize if you had lived like some spoiled and quarrelsome child?