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Is Christianity based on blind faith?

 

AIn one sense, we all operate every day on faith in many different areas of our lives. If you've ever eaten at a restaurant, accepted a doctor's prescription, or planned for the future, you have certainly been operating on a degree of "blind faith."
   As C. S. Lewis said (see resource list), most of the things you believe are believed on authority or on secondary evidence. For example, you may never have actually seen a living dinosaur, but you are confident that dinosaurs once existed. We are confident that things like gravity and the laws of logic exist even though we cannot see them. Of course, experience and rational investigation should increase your confidence in what is true.
   The issue is not faith. Everyone has a faith--atheist, agnostic, or Christian. The real issue is what is a worthy object of our faith. In this essay we will show that Christianity is reasonable and rational, that it is logically consistent, that it fits the evidence, and that it is relevant for modern man. And we hope to clear up a few common misconceptions about Christianity.
   Christianity is not mere blind faith. As emphasized by theologian D. James Kennedy, the claim that belief in Christianity produces an irrational, uneducated, unintelligent, or unintellectual view of life is completely false. And the statement that unbelief produces a rational and intelligent and enlightened view of the universe is equally false.
   Blind faith is faith without evidence, which would be superstition. The Bible does not call us to blind faith. The Bible calls us to faith in evidence. We submit that various truth claims, including Christianity, should be evaluated on the evidence.
   Yes, there will always be a step of faith for the Christian. But that step doesn't require a person to leave his brains at the church door.
   Perhaps you have never seen a reasoned, logical explanation of Christianity. Stand by to be challenged...


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