 The difficulty was not a lack of opportunity to hear about God. The problem lay deeper: in my very concept of what faith was. I thought faith was by definition irrational, that it meant believing some assertion to be true for no reason. It had never occurred to me that there could be a path to faith through reason, that there were arguments for the existence of God, and evidence for the claims of Christianity. I thought you had to “just have faith”—and the very idea of faith baffled and horrified me. – Holly Ordway (from, Not God's Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith)
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There are hundreds or even thousands of debates over this. We know what we believe in and we have faith because God really exist.
Posted by: living fear free | 02/27/2013 at 04:51 AM
If I had thought Christianity was irrational, I could never have become a believer in the first place. I know there are people out there who, like Holly did, mistakenly think that faith is irrational and that is what is stopping them.
Posted by: Michele Marshall | 01/10/2013 at 08:09 PM