In the past few years I usually heard a lot of questions like:''Is there a proof or evidence of God`s existence? Are miracles able to fit as evidence?'' What I really think is that the way ''evidence'' is understanded is wrong and the call to bring that kind of evidence was already fullfiled. How can I belivie this? Just think: can there be brought any evidence of a being that represents the whole universe in the way we understand it, as some material, some sample? I don`t think so. Then, what you do? Change the way you perceive God, to something more like an energy. And what is the evidence for that energy? Is it some thing I just produced now or it`s the opinion of the Church? Well, and that`s trully interesting: yes, it`s the opinion of the Church, and the matter is more close to every religion than we can imagine: there is a practice in orthodox Church, called hesyhasm, that works like a way to find out the evidence, by entering a state of comunion with God and even more, it`s said to provide, under the holy spirit, the power to verify all the stuff about Hell and Heaven, miracles etc. in the way that without consuming any drug or have any biological intervention, you can actually come to perceive this stuff.
What`s extremely dissapointing about this or about people take this is that people make two mistakes: 1. They never try it. 2. They start searching for explanations and, not searching for explanations is the mistake, but the fictive scenario they bring in, without any clue or proof it`s actually true: let`s say I am a monk in some greek monastery and I witness I saw God etc. and you start: no, it was a mushroom or bla bla bla but I didn`t came to verify if that mushroom( or any bla bla) exists. I believe you pretty much understand.
I don`t think that we should just theoretizate about truth and God, but to go and search evidence. If I found out it exists, all discusion doesn`t find`s it`s purpose.
Basically, why manier people aren`t searching for proof?