Out in the Open
Theme of the Week: Confident Doubt-Handling
Michael Wakely
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: They searched the Scriptures day after day to check up on Paul and Silas, to see if they were really teaching the truth (Acts 17:11).Bonus Reading:Luke 24:25-27
I recently studied sociology in university. In our opening tutorial, we were each asked to give a short introduction of ourselves. I told the class who I was and what I did in life. After the class two or three asked me, with some astonishment, why I was studying sociology. "They'll teach you all sorts of things against Christianity."
"If my faith can't be questioned," I replied, "it's not worth having. I believe it can stand up to examination."
The popular conception is that the Christian faith requires closed eyes and closed minds, followed by a surge of comfortable feeling. As long as the feel-good factor is there, an irrational leap is justified.
That's a travesty of a faith that is rooted in space, time, and history. The approach of some other great world religions to faith doesn't invite close intellectual examination. But it isn't so with Christianity. It's not a closed and sealed box. The Christian faith says to the world: "I have answers that are intellectually satisfying, as well as emotionally appealing. I have nothing to hide. In fact I have better answers to some of the big questions than any other philosophy can satisfactorily provide. Come and investigate."
—Michael Wakely in Can It Be True?
My Response: Why is it important that my faith is "rooted in space, time, and history"?
Thought to Apply: Without the capacity of rational argument, all our proof of God ceases.—Jonathan Edwards
Adapted from Can It Be True? (Kregel, 2002) by permission.
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