I found Frank Salt’s article ‘Religious or not…’ (May 1) very inspiring. I would like to make it clear these are my opinions.

Since Christians existed for about 2,000 years and humans several millions, explicit Christian faith is a drop in the ocean in comparison to what others had then and now.

God wants everybody to be saved and you cannot be saved without faith. Not that faith is a means to salvation, it is the beginning of salvation. Faith is an element of salvation in this world, it becomes vision in the next.

Hence, God gives faith to everybody but very few know their faith explicitly and no one knows it completely. This is not surprising since most of our essential knowledge is subconscious and unconscious.

An atheist sincerely pursuing the truth and has genuine love will go to heaven as his implicit faith becomes vision of the truth he was unknowingly seeking.

It is equally ridiculous for me to try to disprove the existence of my God as to try to prove it.

One definition of God is: the “reason behind the order and law, the design and the beauty of the cosmos (the beautiful)”. All this wonder needs an explanation. That one is trying to explain it tells me one has implicit faith.

A certain atheist says: “I don’t explain it by design, or by chance; natural selection explains it all.” Well, he thinks he understands his faith as natural selection. If he can do good with that faith he is safe but I cannot believe he can really be comfortable. I do not believe that heaven is so much an afterlife. It is rather a deeper life. When this life is completed and our deeper self is unshackled, we find ourselves in who we really are (Rahner) and who one really is.

“What we shall be we do not know, but when He appears we will be like Him because we will see Him as He (really) is” (1 John 3:2), something we can never do here on earth.