Is Faith Supposed to Be Blind? with Shane Rosenthal

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Nate Hanson

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4.6 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

For most people, faith means believing without evidence. A leap. A feeling. Something you are told to accept rather than question. That isn't how the scriptures talk about faith.

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0:27.7	of Slack Business Plus. As I looked at the New Testament in its original language, the word for
0:34.2	faith is Pistus. And this wasn't a word that the New Testament writers invented. It's not a religious term. It's just the term that Aristotle and Plato and Herodotus and Thucydides and Josephus, all these agent writers used for the word trust. And when you trust somebody, if you trust your babysitter, you trust your doctor, you trust the chair you're sitting on, there are usually good reasons to do so.
0:59.3	This is a big, big interview for me. I'm so excited about this show and for you to hear this show.
1:05.9	But before we do that, I want to quickly set the stage for this conversation.
1:09.5	For most of my life, I believed that
1:11.1	faith meant believing without evidence, that it was this blind leap that you took. It was a
1:16.6	feeling. It was something you just decided to trust because you were supposed to and you were
1:21.7	compelled to. That version of Christianity ended up not holding up for me. I spent years in ministry
1:26.9	and then I went through a long
1:28.4	season of deconstruction where I seriously questioned whether the Christian story actually
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