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About Jesus - Steve (Stephen) Sweetman Is
It Really Blind Faith? I have handed my life
over to Jesus because I have come to understand, and am convinced that He
is the ultimate universal authority. Logic,
then, dictates that I submit my life to His rule. This
submission is premised on me being rationally informed and spiritually
enlightened, and that due to the presupposition that rationality and
spirituality are inherent within a human being.
Some people maintain
that my submission to Jesus is a leap of blind faith, a jump into an
obscure uncertainty that defies rationality.
They question how I can intelligently submit myself to a guy who
lived a couple thousand years ago with a claim of divinity. If we are going to talk
about blind faith, we must first understand how the Bible, not us, defines
faith. Biblical faith as it
relates to Jesus means that the one with faith trusts Jesus, and trust is
a matter of both the mind and the heart.
Trusting Jesus, then, is a rational process leading to a heart-felt
commitment. In this process,
and a process it is, handing my life over to Jesus is both a matter of my
rational mind and my spiritual heart.
If you insist that my
trust in Jesus is a blind leap into uncertainty, then I suggest that such
blind leaps are common to most all aspects of our lives.
You may act upon good information, but your decision to act is
seldom without some uncertainty. You
may drive to work, for example, based on an informed understanding that
you will arrive on time, yet you cannot be certain that an unexpected
traffic problem might make you late. When
you committed yourself to a trusting marriage relationship, as informed as
you thought you were, uncertainty soon became a certain fact.
Hormonal informed certainty simply clouded over the uncertainty of
married life. The simple fact
is that we all attempt to make informed choices knowing that each choice
carries a measure of uncertainty. Manoeuvring our way
through life certainly requires an informed rationality, but that does not
nullify the uncertainty that exists beyond our informed choices.
That being so, a rational approach to life dictates that so-called
blind leaps of faith are common among us all.
With that in mind, you cannot rationally portray my submissive
relationship with Jesus in negative terms as being merely a blind leap of
faith. If you do, you must
also admit that you exercise similar leaps of blind faith.
I conclude where I
began. My submission to Jesus
is premised on being rationally informed and spiritually enlightened, and
that due to the presupposition that I am both a rational and spiritual
being. That being the case, I
don't view my submission to Jesus in terms of jumping off the cliff of
rationality into the abyss of uncertainty.
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