God
Illustration★★★★Said Unamuno, a Spanish philosopher: “If you ask me how I believe in to the dean, “I’m not even sure that I believe in God.” “That’s not important God, how God creates himself in me, just now,” he replied. “I mean, it isn’t and reveals himself to me, my answer may perhaps provoke your smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, quite so urgent, at present, whether you believe in God as whether he can believe in you. If you will conduct yourself in a manner that might encourage him to believe in you, the time may come when you feel that you should return the compliment.”
The point
Unamuno proposes that belief in God is like belief in friends—reciprocal and relational, best tested by conduct that might encourage God to believe in us.