other words: Does God live in the soul of the be- liever only, or does He rule the world independ ently of whether or not one believes in Him? This is the point at which minds part company basic- ally and decisively. This question can never be cleared up scientifically, by logical conclusions based on facts, The answer is solely and exclu- sively a matter of faith—religious faith, ‘The answer of the religious person is that God exists, that He existed before there were human beings on the earth, that he holds the whole world, believers as well as disbelievers, in His omnipotent hands since the beginning of eternity, and that He will continue ¢o rule from His heights inaccessible to human imagination long after the earth and everything on it will have crumbled to dust. All those who profess this be- lief and, filled by it with humility and unques- tioning trust and devotion, feel protected by the Almighty from every danger in life, all chose— but only those—may consider themselves truly religious. ‘This is the essential content of creed which re- ligion requires its followers to profess. Let us