"If I Can't See It Then I Won't Believe It"

I think my short answer to this would take the form of this question: what if we were unable to see in the first place, what if we were born blind? Would any amount of visual description, from someone who could see, make any sense to us? And wouldn’t we be limiting our own understanding of reality if we did not accept what others related to us on faith?

Now, this question takes on even more significance in relation to the question of God’s existence because, as the Saints attest, it’s also directly related to our will; related to morality, consequently to the way we perceive and experience reality, and, in turn, to the attending degrees of happiness we can attain.

So, here’s the point. There are two worlds we know. We know the outer world we perceive with our senses and interpret through our intellects. We also know the inner world which is related to the outer through desire. The best we can do by examining the outer world is come to know about God’s existence through logical inference. But unless this “about” knowledge of God’s existence is connected to the inner world of human desire then it is, for all intents and purposes, practically useless -- thus irrelevant. However, to think of God purely as an intellectual object is to really miss not only the point of religious experience, of religion itself, but also the most fascinating fact about ourselves: "All [our] life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of [our] consciousness.”

To Jews before the time of Jesus God answered to the thirst for justice and righteousness, to the promise of a kingdom which would establish these realities. To Christians, not long after Jesus’ time, inheriting the Greek notion of God as the Good, God thus answered, in addition to the need for a kingdom of justice and righteousness, to the human desire for an “unattainable ecstasy”, which not even God’s earthly kingdom could grant. God, then, according to the most holy saints, is directly related to us as an object of desire which is acquired by virtue and grace; an acquisition, a union, from which, once had, flows the unshakable happiness which only a being, existing above space and time in the eternal now, could induce.