Where it starts and ends
We live in an age where seeing is believing. This poses a problem for many people with the Christian faith since that is exactly what it is…faith. But that doesn’t stop many people from explaining everything there is to know in the Bible. I saw a special on the History Channel about the scientific feasibility of the drying up of the Red Sea as well as the Flood. Many times people want the why or how to things that aren’t meant to be known in this life. Now before people start protesting this blog, hear me out. God has given us a creative and powerful mind and has provided insight into who He is, but Romans 1:17 states something that is a fact of the Christian life. It states that in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed ‘from faith for faith’ (ESV).
This means that at some point, after all the explanations and reason you can muster, there will still be a point where faith has to take over. The gospel makes sense only by starting with faith in order to lead us into a richer faith in Jesus Christ. An example is the Trinity. I have heard many ways of explaining the Trinity to make it comprehensible and believable, but when it gets down to it, stating that God is one in three persons requires faith.
