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)
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.
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)
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.
There are hundreds or even thousands of debates over this. We know what we believe in and we have faith because God really exist.