Sighted Faith

Sighted Faith


Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you
Luke 1:3 New International Version


People don’t say it much anymore, but I used to hear that believers in God and Jesus had blind faith. The erroneous assumptions of the cynics however still continue even in the information age. They assume someone told us what to believe and we fell for it hook, line and sinker. As if we are mentally deficient or easily hoodwinked in some way. I think the faith-challenged presuppose us believers to be a certain type of person, someone genetically predisposed to gullibility and certain physiological phenomenon, which requires “religious people” to need something better than ourselves to justify our existence.

One of my co-workers caught me reading my Bible. She referred to me as religious. I told her, “I am one of the least religious people you’ll ever meet.”
She said, “Well, you are reading a Bible.”
“Yes.” I said.
“Well that makes you religious.”
“Why?”
“Well, people that read the Bible are religious and they go to church, right?”
“Lady, I don’t even like to go to church and I curse too. But, in spite of those things I simply try to love God because he has done good things for me.”
“I was never raised to be a religious person.” She said.
I told her, “Neither was I.”

I have a nonbelieving friend that reasons diametrically different from me. He thinks that mankind will solve all of its own problems and that the world will be at peace soon. I asked him to watch the news for five minutes and get back to me. I asked him where he got his ideas. He said he just feels that way… That sounds like blind denial to me. When I push him for more concrete answers for his hypothesis, he says, “I just believe.” That is not an answer that will convince anyone of anything. A good investigation looks at the facts, with no preconceived or conspired outcome. Let the facts speak for themselves. The one fact that should be looked at is also the same fact that the media and frankly a lot of faithless chumps have been attacking and trying to debase for years, and that is the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The life and resurrection of Jesus have been proven true by historians and investigators that studied canonical and non-canonical sources over the centuries. In addition, men and women have given up their lives because their faith was sighted and grounded in reality.

Is your belief sighted and firmly grounded or is it blind to reason and consequence?
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Thoughts on faith from a sinful man
Author: Eric MontgomeryCopyright ©2009