“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

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This reads as a playful and sharp parody of theological logic. It can be taken to mean that the demand for proof sits uneasily beside faith, because certainty would change the very thing faith asks for. It lands as a joke in a debate about belief, where the absurdity is the point and the sentence exposes its own circular trap.

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