The spirit does not ask people to put their trust in nonsense.

Close your eyes, take a deep breath and take it by faith.

That's not faith. That's superstition.

We live in a time where we've been infected with what's called Fideism, which says,

I don't need to have a reason for what I believe.

I just close my eyes like Tiny Alice and take a real deep breath and scrunch up my nose and if I try

hard enough I can believe.

And I jump into the arms of Jesus.

I take a blind leap of faith. I hear that expression all the time.

And every time I hear that expression, people say, take a leap of faith. I have a pain that starts at the back of my

feet and goes all the way up my back and I want to say no no no the Bible never

tells you to take a leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there.

The Bible calls you to jump out of the darkness and into the light, and that is not a blind leap.

That the faith that the New Testament calls us too is a faith that is rooted and grounded

in things that God does that make it very, very clear that this is the truth.

For example, when Paul does encounter the philosophers at Mars Hill, and he says to them,

the former days of ignorance, God overlooked, but now God commands all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world

by what?

By that one whom he has proven to be his son by the resurrection of the debt.

It's not like God comes down in the form of Christ, and Jesus goes into a closet someplace, and offers an

atonement, and after he offers the atonement, then God in the closet raises him up from the dead.

Nobody sees him. There's none of that in Christianity.

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