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Should You Believe Things You Can’t Fully Comprehend?

#STRask

Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Questions about whether you should believe things you can’t fully comprehend, whether it’s just an arbitrary escape hatch to say God doesn’t require a cause, and how to respond to an atheist who grounds objective morality in an objective rule or criteria.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the hashtag SDRS podcast from Stan to Reason.

0:15.9

I'm Amy Hall and with me is Greg Kokel.

0:19.0

And today, Greg, we have some more philosophical-type questions.

0:23.3

We'll see how many we get through. Hopefully it'll be more than one. We'll see how it goes.

0:29.1

And this first one comes from Kevin.

0:32.0

Should one believe things they cannot fully comprehend? And if not, at what level of comprehension of certain

0:39.6

biblical truth statements ought they begin believing? Well, let me take the first thing.

0:45.9

The answer is yes, of course. In fact, I suspect that Kevin believes all kinds of things

0:52.5

that he doesn't comprehend.

0:55.3

Unless he's an E.T. guy, I mean, trying to figure out computers and how it all works.

1:03.1

I am amazed that I can put my finger on the screen and move a little dot around and influence the words on the page and cause things to change

1:13.7

or I can hit a keystroke and how do it know what to do kind of thing. You know, that's, I don't get

1:19.1

that. And or I dictate into my phone with the microphone and it, it not only knows my, it records what I'm trying to say, but if there's a homonym, it recognizes that, gives me a choice of changing it.

1:38.5

Or if I have the wrong word and I erase the wrong word, it offers a new word that is fully within the

1:47.6

context of the sentence I'm saying. It's like a thoughtful alternative. How did he know that?

1:53.8

How did the computer know that? How does AI communicate with? How does my GPS on my phone talk to me normally about which turns to make in every single

2:03.4

spot in the world in a normal voice?

2:06.0

Okay.

2:06.9

Do I believe all of those things?

2:08.3

Sure.

2:08.7

It is happening right there and it's taking place.

2:11.1

Do I understand it?

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