It's amazing what will come out of mind that has abandoned its foundations. G. K. Chesterton rightly implied (he never said it but he gave the idea and people have merely shortened his idea) that when a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, but he will believe in anything. Now I'm not going to go off on a tangent that so many people do and say that the world has lost its belief in God and therefore we are becoming a society who will believe in anything. This is true but said too much and is usually grossly overexagerated. I merely want to use this as a backdrop to what I really want to say. It is a biblical notion and common sense to believe in what you have always believed until proven or persuaded to deny it. So many christians will find question in a part of christianity and will immediately lose faith in that aspect even though they have yet to find an answer. Not only do they fail to see God's relationship as a tool for getting answers but they fail to see the difference between suspect and guilt. God has really never asked us to blindly follow Him but really has just asked us to prove Him wrong. Again Chesterton said that the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting but has been found difficult and left untried. Jesus said, "Come, follow Me." He said we must be like children to enter the kingdom of God. He was merely saying we must be humble enough to take Him on. He did not ask for an ignorant loyalty but a humble one. If He asked us to ignorantly follow Him, He wouldn't of spent much time talking to us in a such a way or performing miracles. He gave us plenty of weight behind His presence and merely asked us to take it on.
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