Our Father - God is As prayer is a universal human activity, so too is belief in God . The Bible does not debate the existence of God - "in the beginning God made...." It is interesting to note that when Confederation first came into being and the founding fathers were searching for a name for Confederation, it was Leonard Tilley who turned to the Bible and from the 72nd Psalm found a name which suited so glorious a venture - "Let his Dominion be from sea to sea, and from the river unto the world's end." verse 8. Natural theology comes readily to a man as understanding of his world, and his place in it - "The heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament showeth his handiwork." Psalm 19: 1,2 Philosophically, man has often found himself in an agnostic state, like the Athenians of St . Paul's time who raised an altar to the "unknown god", to whom St . Paul was able to say, "...whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him I declare unto you". Acts 17:23 Judaeo-Christian theology comes to us through the Old and New Testaments, from Abraham, the prophets, our Lord Himself, and the holy apostles. Our faith in God is a response to the revelation God has given to us. We cannot on our own reach the full knowledge of God . This is what the people of Babel thought they could do, so they tried to build a tower to reach the gods. Austin Farrar points out in A Celebration of Faith that more blessed was Abraham to whom God revealed Himself in the form of a traveller. This traveller ate at his table and called Abraham friend. Exodus 33: 11. Yet God identifies Himself unrestrictedly with every one of His creatures. He thinks them and knows them from within. His creative thought is expressed in their very being . God becomes human in man: He is met in our neighbour: "For inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of one of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me". Matthew 25:40. Our belief in God is man's response to the revelation of Himself- in Nature, in thought, and in human relationships. "Give us this day our daily bread..." man's needs A second thought from the Our Father is that man is not self-sufficient. Perhaps the greatest delusion we suffer from in this scientific and technological age is that we conceive of man's need as being only material, intellectual or aesthetic. We think, "When we know enough we will be free, we will be able to answer man's needs." 60