what's belief in God?

Belief in God is apprehended involuntarily by unadulterated, pure reason, as a natural expression of the mind's inner machinations—an innate inclination of the human constitution, whereby God, the Necessary Being, is known as the ultimate cause and source of all existence and intelligibility.

This can be described as an intuitive, a priori knowledge that's available to all human beings by their very nature as rational beings.
Though innate knowledge, and present in all human beings, it may be obscured or suppressed by various factors, such as cultural or intellectual influences.

The vast majority (perhaps even all) of what we regularly and justifiably take ourselves to know comes about variously—and often through a corroborative combination of—precisely the same kinds of factors and considerations upon which the most solid, stable, and evincive cumulative case for the existence of God and the basic truths of religion can be made.



Immediate and universally shared knowledge (i.e. that of pure reason, which is held innately and necessary for rational inquiry and meaningful explanation) cannot be trumped by parochial conclusions derived speculatively by the adherents of a pre-committed philosophical doctrine. Properly functioning natural constitution plays a crucial role in achieving coherence because it is what grounds the condition of warrant [for belief to be justified].
The external criterion of natural constitution properly functioning, in conjunction with the relevant cognitive faculties, in an epistemic milieu congenial to its working, is what allows for the coherence of beliefs. The belief is causally sustained by conditions external to the agent's first-person purview.
This is what it means for a belief's warrant to be grounded in the natural constitution [endowed in us by the Creator].
This innate disposition acts as the very ground for the necessary concepts and principles through which experience—and knowledge itself—can be obtained and made understandable. When it is sound, it allows one to judge the truth of premises, necessary precepts, or other metaphysical principles (ex. causality); if it were not "sound" or had been corrupted in some sense, this hindrance would prevent our faculties from obtaining these sorts of knowledge—knowledge itself would not be possible.

Although these potentially fallible belief sources—our sensory faculties, and intellect—may succumb to error, they are nonetheless in essence sound, which allows for them to produce foundational knowledge. In other words, when unimpaired (such as through the fallibility of our sensory faculties and intellect), the innate human disposition will generally guide our cognition to truth, even if it may at times be distorted.

By utilising massively successive transmission, beliefs grounded in a properly functioning natural constitution can be reinforced for their coherence and reliability. This internal epistemic guarantor provides support and consilience to the warrant of belief. Establishing certain knowledge claims by recurrent attestation to the same information provides secure foundation for belief and circumvents the pitfalls in knowledge acquisition of circular reasoning, infinite regress, and arbitrary assumptions.



Ultimately, the belief in God is grounded in the natural constitution endowed in us by the Creator, and its warrant is supported by the coherence and reliability of our cognitive faculties. Not merely a product of cultural or intellectual influences, the innate disposition towards such belief is a natural expression of the mind's inner machinations. This intuitive knowledge is available to all human beings by their very nature as rational beings, and its potential suppression or obscurity by various factors does not negate its existence. Through the proper functioning of our natural constitution and cognitive faculties, beliefs grounded in this innate disposition can be reinforced for their coherence and reliability, providing a secure foundation for belief in God. Thus, the belief in God is not only rational but also a natural expression of our human constitution, a product of our cognitive faculties; a testament to the complexity and profundity of our existence.