Why does a person believe that God exists at all?
I think that every believer will give their own answer to that. This includes the believer who after an initial push, after an experience, steps over the threshold from disbelief to belief, and the one who gets his faith not as an inheritance from his parents, but as a personal faith and is strengthened in it through the inner spiritual experience of communication with God, which every real Christian has. It is because of this you cannot disbelieve if you have begun believing for real. When it is said that there are people who stop believing and become atheists – it’s a lie. One cannot become an atheist from a believer, a believer can only become a resister of God. The entire experience of atheism from antiquity to our twentieth century affirms this to us. An atheist must be ambivalent and calm in relation to that from which he came away. But how much energy, enthusiasm, not to say anger, is found in those people who renounce their religious convictions. This is always a rebellion agai