I'll take the risk in what lies in the great beyond b/c I was living up to my own ethics.
Yes, this is a good point. The ideas of God we have now involves a great deal of mystery, but essentially we find a deep alignment with our most profound human yearnings, hopes, dreams, needs, essentially because we are made for connection to God, for participation in love that proceeds from everlasting. We are "of" God, of his very being, so believing is like finding home. Because this Divine Presence is so mysterious, ever-present, so infused in all-that-is, various belief systems reflect facets of this one core mystery, as well as ways to return to a place of relationship where we rightfully belong.
This movement towards God requires however, as far as I can tell, a degree of trust and humility on our part, and often we have a great deal of trouble with this. The reasons for this are
not such a mystery.
For those who do, and have, chosen to truly draw near to God, there is much to indicate unimaginable good of the deepest kind comes of it. I think if we saw, or grasped (even a little) who and what we are relating to (in God) our reservations would melt away. Hoever, much obscures our vision....much in ourselves, much in our culture, and sometimes even much in religion. The latter is an irony in that the same thing that can generate real obstacles to us is also known to be a main avenue for entering into profound connection with the Divine Life. One has to work through lots of chatter to see away clearly, but the way
is there.
My own experience of belief has been that when I decided to make a definite, heartfelt step in this direction, lots of the other intuitions, values, hopes that I held in my life began to tumble into place.....they suddenly gelled, emerged from a fog, became more vivid. In other words, belief in God (and that connection) made me (and is still making me)
more who I truly am. I found there is absolutely nothing to fear, not even a little.