ABSTRACT
In the Christian tradition it is said that God is known through his works. However, it is only with the eyes of faith that people can recognize an event as an act or a work of God. Furthermore, discerning the agency of God with the eyes of faith is itself looked on by believers as a gift of God. Religious experience should not be viewed as an extraordinary kind of extra-sensory perception, but rather as ordinary experience looked upon with the eyes of faith. If God is a God of love, as believers claim, then all this applies also to the sort of relation that God wants to establish and maintain with human persons. A loving God does not desire that people cause evil and affliction to him and to each other through the abuse of freedom. Religious metaphors are always existential in the sense that they express the meaning and significance of life and experience.
