Thanksgiving is an appropriate day to consider food. Are you a pie guy or do you relish the dressed turkey and potatoes? Faith is like that. Faith in God can be some pie in the sky fairyland or a vital part of our daily lives in this our earthly existence. Which do you prefer? How do you know?
By definition and central to New Testament faith in God is the pie in the sky, 2000-year-old doctrine of the Virgin Birth of Jesus. Just because some of the disciples of Jesus and some of the biblical writers believed in the virgin birth, must we? Just because some Christian believers all through the church’s history are of this one opinion, must we share that opinion? Are we not humanoids of the 21st century? Is this doctrine really necessary or does it just make us feel good?
Of course,
you say, when it comes to matters of faith, the wisdom of the mind and science
cannot be trusted. However, Jesus said a
day is coming when we all shall worship God in the spirt and truthfully. If Jesus were sitting next to you or me in the pew
this Sunday, what would he say? Maybe,
because of our insistence on the fairyland of faith, he would say, “Oh, you of little faith!” (Matt.
17:20,21)
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
