I was reading an article on the Telegraph website about Allen Stanford’s aims to establish cricket as a sport in which discussing weighty issues, like buses travelling outside the cricket ground; pigeons dying due to high flying balls and so on and so forth, would give way to a boring game styled after football, when I stumbled across an article with the slightly leading title, “Intelligent people less likely to believe in God“.

I have very little doubt that the results of the survey are true, and that in academia, Christianity is very little represented. However, I don’t believe this is a shocking thing at all. The Bible speaks in several places of God choosing ‘the foolish things of the world’ and so on. One of the most remarkable things about the disciples was that they were uneducated, and yet put the religious leaders to shame. I think we become easily discouraged in witnessing when we cannot refute abiogenesis well enough to convince an atheist, or explain that the universe had to have a cause, and Jesus is eternal, and so he’s a worthy candidate.

We are not witnesses to a concept of God, we are witnesses to the Lord Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father. Perhaps we should remember the answer of the man born blind, when he says:

Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”

The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

As Christians, a miracle of healing has taken place in every one of our lives. There are countless examples of lives transformed by Jesus. We do not understand all of how this healing has taken place, we know only the surface of the man who performed it, and yet the fact it has taken place is not something that will be changed when we cease to have a clear view of some of the doctrines we found easy and obvious as children.

We do not not need to be scientists to be witnesses of Jesus, and we do not need to be discouraged when those who say they are (although the man on the street very rarely actually has any idea beyond the complete blarney they propogate on TV) give questions we cannot answer. None of this post is written to suggest that we should be ignorant or uninquisitive.

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