More trust less thought

I asked my son to explain the differences he perceived between the words mind and brain, and I knew that it would not be regurgitation of things I had already taught him because I had not ever spoken on this topic. His ideas of course fit right in line with mine, they always do because he is my son. This makes me think of how things become or exist in microcosm and microcosm everywhere so it feels natural to believe that things greater were created by something greater and more capable, sounds like a parent.

I am convinced that there is a God but not because I reasoned him into existence, but because I undeniably know it. I have always been scientific in that I start in belief and theorize and then aim to prove. Accordingly, I have been waiting to know the way to prove things I know to be true about a Heavenly Father, but finally figured out such a thing makes sense, but does not originate with reasoning. It is the absence of knowing (by definition) to believe. And if a man wants to know it seems pointless to live.

Unless...

Things are known by other means. If a man prays God surely will grant them that information.

I see a huge downfall through the very tool to raise up, namely religion. Rhetoric works to teach a man the things he seeks to know of God, and aims to teach a man to pray, but ultimately It has trusted too much in itself.

I have even heard people question if everything believed was a lie when they found that somethings were a lie, as ultimately man will realize (just look at history). I love a talk spoken by a prophet Gordon B. Hinckley where he speaks of Christ being the center piece and the cause of all reckoning (hence B.C. to A.D.). It is pointed out how long Christianity has survived despite the attempts to thwart it. Although, a psychology professor tried to point out flaws in the religion, it only was "taken in" by those who live by reasoning. Surely, it is easy to reason out how religions are incorrect. They seek to lead a soul to Christ, and what a nobel thing that is to do. Still, it is not the religion that will "save" a man, but Christ himself.

Blah, blah, blah... I am still trying to use language and understanding to lead one to knowledge, perhaps it is because I care too much, for some odd reason, about wether or not friends and loved ones will make it...imagine life as being like a dark tunnel or cave to be passed through. Once through or having seen light I want to place mirrors strategically to guide others through, assuming we all originally intended to pass through. It only now occurred to me that perhaps others intended to stay in dark corners or something. Well, if someone knew a way through and did not share It with me I would feel hurt.