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Do Christians Rely on Blind Faith?

I’m a Christian, and I think blind faith is not sensible. The phrase “blind faith” has been invented by opponents of Christianity to make us look bad. Nowhere in the Bible and nowhere in the teachings of Christianity are we told to have blind faith.

However, we all have faith in what we don’t see for ourselves in a sense. We use it regularly in our daily lives. When you board an aircraft, you won’t be able to check in the cockpit that all the instruments are working correctly and that pilots are correctly trained and certified. You will never be able to verify this first-hand, but you have faith all these things are in place.

Why? Because you trust the systems, training, accreditation, and maintenance are all in place, though you’ve never seen them yourself.

The God of the Bible values thought, reason, and logic. In the book of Isaiah, he challenges us with the words, “Come now, let us reason together.” God always gives us enough evidence to start believing. Then he wants us to use our brains to look at the evidence and join the dots.

When it comes to God, people don’t like connecting the dots. There’s a double standard here. We don’t understand everything about the physical world around us, yet we believe it. So why do people insist on understanding everything about the infinite God and the things of the Spirit before they will believe?

This is where trust comes in. Trust isn’t a strange concept. Trust is fundamental in every relationship. That’s what faith is for a follower of Jesus. Faith is trust.

The central issue of faith has to do with the resurrection of Jesus. God doesn’t ask you to believe the resurrection happened based on blind faith. He’s given us the evidence from hundreds of eyewitnesses and the evidence of the resurrection’s impact on history. It would be difficult to develop more evidence for the resurrection than what God has given us.

So, God essentially says, “I’ve given you a heap of evidence for that. I’m sure that now you can trust me for the rest.”

As far as “blind faith” is concerned, I’m all for using your brain. I’ll even go as far as to say that it’s the person who chooses not to look at the evidence and weigh it up rationally who is truly blind.

– Eliezer Gonzalez