Understanding your faith is like understanding who you are. I don’t care what you believe in whether its Atheism, Christianity, or Buddhism, you need to understand why you believe what you believe, and not to mention at least an idea of beliefs that don’t match yours. I’m gonna focus on Christianity in this discussion because its what I believe and know the most about.

I recently played devil’s advocate with someone in a discussion about there being a God. My argument focused on a theory that Jesus Christ’s miracle birth can be explained in the stars. If Jesus wasn’t a real savior, then God doesn’t exist. Whether it is completely true or not, I have no idea, but it is a theory that exists.

The first problem we ran into was that a wall went up. The person I was talking with automatically and blindly rejected the theory. I understand that this happens. We’re talking completely flat out said, “Well that can’t be true.”

So I asked them why.

They started grabbing for something to hang onto but found nothing but air. They started quoting scriptures from the Bible. This is major issue number one. People that don’t believe in the Christian God also do not believe in the Christian Bible. Stop using it!

So when the Bible fails to back up their beliefs, like so many Christians are led to believe, clueless Christians start using personal experiences. My conversation didn’t contain this specific example, but my personal favorite is:

  

“You believe in the wind, right? You can’t see the wind, but you feel the effects of it. That’s what God is like.”

This may have made a couple people think about 20 years ago, but lets get a life. With so much pain in the world, and hostile feelings towards the church, don’t you think they will relate what they are feeling (sadness, pain, etc.) to the God you’re trying to speak of?

Then the persuasive arguments start rolling in. Things like, “Well if you accept Jesus into your heart, you’ll have this inner peace that just calms you whenever your feeling worried, stressed, or sad.” are said. I would insert laughing right here if I knew how. Just like love, faith hurts too.

People today aren’t looking to screw around with your petty arguments about how wonderful you feel after you accept Jesus or what the Bible says about it. Do yourself a favor and do a little research outside of your church and the Bible about why you believe in your faith. Even if you can’t prove its a fact, at least you won’t be a victim of blind faith.