Belief is necessary for anyone. Belief that God is. Belief that Lord Jesus is. Belief that the Holy Spirit is. Is and was and will be. Living life in time a huge scale of magnitude longer than our mortal life time. Belief is certainty. Belief is being certain because each of us by each one being certain it is true. Not merely orthodox or conservative or progressive. True. On the way to acquiring certainty we might try to learn by adhering to doctrines we are taught. We might adhere to an understanding of the meanings of scriptures. We might adhere to the literal words of Jesus, trying not to make false or risky assumptions about their meaning, hoping the Spirit will inspire us with understanding (and to me this is prudent). Eventually obedience grows till God fulfills the promise to be found by us, by our searching, and till Jesus fulfills the promise that He and the Father, God, will show themselves to the obedient, and the promise to dwell with them. The promise of the Holy Spirit being given to those who God sees are believing His word. Then we really start to live. Then God, Jesus, the Spirit are our very great reward.
