I don’t want to have blind faith. I want to place my faith in something that has evidence. It’s hard to have faith in something that has no evidence. I would say that falls more into the category of fallacy. So what is truly worth putting my faith in?
It seems there has to be a balance between common sense/practicality and the miraculous. I would say BOTH are evidence. If you have something that makes common sense and also has miraculous as well then I would say that is something that is worth looking into. I think on top of that it is very evidential if you also have OTHER people see what you are seeing. To have one person see something that can very well be true can lead to people saying that person is crazy or was seeing something. But to have an entire group of people have EVIDENCE for something both practically evident AND miraculously evident is something that has credibility. But what actually makes that something WORTHY of putting faith in?
I’ll speak my personal testimony on this one. I would say when what you are putting your faith in becomes visible. For me, I put my faith in Yeshua (Jesus) who I believe is the incarnation of Yahweh, the One true God. I don’t claim to know how all that works but I believe in Jesus, and have from a young age, and never really lost that faith. Now the part that is interesting is the visibility part of this. In college they showed us a DNA image of what was most scientifically proportionate of what Yeshua would have likely looked like (I’ll attach the photo). I have not personally seen that man walking around, but I will say this: I have seen SOOO much evidence OF Christ in the body of Christ, or the Church.
Growing up and to this day I would say the people who have most consistently showed me Christ are my brother JD and my dad. I see Christ in them so much. They both watched over me as a kid, genuinely and truly loved me, still do and always will. And I genuinely and truly loved them too, still do and always will. I also see Christ in myself too. I have so many mistakes, have many thorns in my flesh, and wrestle with temptation daily; but I rest in knowing that the Holy Spirit still dwells within me. Mainly not because of what I see just me but because of what people have told me they see in me.
Jake Wentworth 