Noah and The Reasons of Faith: Faith as Understanding

Overview

The Bible tells us faith begins with thinking. This is not the popular conception, I know. But the Bible says faith requires and stimulates the profoundest thinking and reasoning. You cannot be a Christian without using your brain to its uttermost.

Nowadays, we’re told by our culture from the time we’re very little that the big questions—what is real, what is right and wrong, and what we should be living for—are questions for the philosophers. We’re taught that the important things are standard of living, career, appearance, and psychological needs. But that is not doubt on the basis of thinking; that’s doubt on the basis of an absence of thinking, a refusal to think.

Hebrews 11 shows us three aspects about faith: 1) that thinking leads to faith, 2) how thinking leads to faith, and 3) why thinking leads to faith.