Who's Irrational?

Pastor Steve got us thinking about faith in today’s message. He read to us from Hebrews 11, which talks about being certain of a thing we don’t have in our hands, a thing we can’t yet see. As he mentioned, there are a boatload of books out there, written by atheists, who would have us believe that this kind of faith is just plain foolish. They’ll tell you we’re completely illogical to believe in a God we can’t touch and in promises not yet fulfilled.

These non-believers say, in essence, that even though we don’t currently have all the answers for how this universe works, we are the only ones capable of having those answers. Our understanding is the standard by which all answers must be judged. If it seems irrational to our intellect, then it IS irrational.

Wow, is it just me or does that sound really arrogant? Humanity is the pinnacle – everything is subject to our judgment and our abilities. Even when every day we are confronted with a creation we can’t begin to imagine how it was made or keeps working.

Faith, on the other hand, says that we don’t know it all. But that’s okay. If we don’t understand something, we can know that God does. His Scripture, His presence in our lives and in our world, His promises – we can have faith it is all true, without having to understand how it’s true. Faith is, in part, about having the humility to admit that we don’t have all the answers.

So you decide. We’re faced with an unimaginably huge universe, filled with unknowable mysteries at every turn. Thousands and thousands of things we don’t know and don’t understand. What’s more rational – to believe that our limited, finite minds must provide all the answers? Or that an unlimited, infinite God already knows the answers, having set it all in motion? Click on “comments” below to let us know what you think about faith.