Unreasonable Doubt

No matter how much evidence someone has, unless the Holy Spirit touches you, its useless. Jesus' disciples were with him 3 years and saw all the miracles, but still Thomas doubted he has resurrected. In Matthew 28:17 it records that upon seeing Jesus before his ascension, some people still doubted him. Though he was right there in front of them. Why? Because our hearts love the doubt, even mine. The evidence even today is overwhelming, even more for me, but the heart is so wicked that you still have doubt at times, not because you have a good reason to doubt. But simply for the sake of infallibility. This is why philosophers of old before scientific rationalism would say stupid things like, you're the chair, and the table isn't really there its a ethereal shadow. Faith is placing your trust on good evidence. Its not blindly trusting without any evidence or despite the evidence to the contrary, it is believing on the best evidence. This is why the court system has "beyond a reasonable doubt" for officers to search victims. Because unreasonable doubts exist! Unreasonable doubts make no sense but we cling to them because "they might be possible".

Faith is setting unreasonable doubts aside for good available evidence, and giving a reasonable explanations based upon the available evidence. Imagine if the regularity principle did not exist? That if one law is active in the universe one day and inactive the next. We wouldn't believe anything. At best the modern agnostic is precisely that. He believes everything and nothing at once. But this is not possible because you cannot destroy the law of non-contradiction. It is the conservation of energy of logic. Therefore there are millions of possible scenarios that something can happen but most of them are the least likely scenario. Yet our stubborn hearts lust after the least likely scenarios to justify the ends to our means. This is the blindness to our hearts. So where does the leave mankind? At the unlimited grace of a loving God who pours his Spirit over our stubborn minds and unwilling hearts.