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If You Believe in God, Are You Crazy?

ConfusedI’ve been thinking about something for the past two weeks…

We don’t believe in the Fountain of Youth, but we do believe in the stirring of the healing waters.

We don’t believe in levitation, but we’re down with walking on water.

We don’t believe in ghosts (except Casper), but we believe in angels and demons.

We don’t believe in papal infallibility (that the pope is perfect), but we do believe that the Scripture was divinely inspired. And that Peter wrote some of it.  And Peter is the Catholic’s first pope. Hmm.

We don’t believe in zombies (well, I do), but we hold the hope that the dead will rise again.

We don’t believe in voodoo, but we seem to believe in demon possession.

We don’t believe in reincarnation, but we do believe in a new heaven, new earth, and a new body.

We don’t believe in fortune telling, but most of us think that prophecy is on the up and up.

We don’t believe in pizza boxes being magically refilled, but we accept that five buns fed 5000+.

We don’t believe in the dramatic “miracles” of televangelists, but we’re okay with a blind guy getting spit in the eyes and having his sight restored.

We don’t believe in unicorns, but we do believe in talking donkeys, multi-eyed beasts, tempting snakes, and burning bushes.

So…

Are we crazy to believe in God, or what?

Author: Jay Brock

Jay Brock is the founding blogger of SexRev.org. He's a world traveler who is currently doing a church plant internship on Vancouver Island. He and his wife Michelle blog regularly about sex trafficking and living your dreams. Jay hopes to someday become an author and church leader, and would like to have eight children if he can convince Michelle to do so.

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  1. Ben Says:

    It really depends on your definition of crazy, if being crazy for God is bad or not, and whether it could still be called crazy if everybody believed it (something crazy that is). My personal view is that believing in God is far from crazy, in fact it's completely natural. The idea that the universe was created with us in mind is a staple aspect of what it means to be human (and what a human thought that is). Maybe the idea of a God helps control the anxiety life can bring, or provides a concept of final judgement, or maybe one of the Gods is the real one and all the other's followers are in for an infinite surprise come death. We can at least say it's an almost universal human characteristic, and maybe that's enough. Also, I think it's safe to say that talking to a God is completely normal, it's when a God talks back when sanity might be questioned.

  2. sexrevcomments Says:

    Great thoughts Ben. I guess I'm just hoping that we, as Christ-followers, will really think consciously about what we actually believe. Because if we truly believed that Jesus walked on water, than Jonah survived a whale, that the seas parted…wouldn't we be absolutely MIND-BLOWNED?!

  3. Ben Says:

    Do you think theres a lot of Christians that don't really believe it? I think there's a difference between believing something and acting as though something is true. Maybe the reason why people don't seem to be amazed by those accounts is in the nature of the stories they narrate. The world ancient writings put us in would certainly be a wacky place to live, with all these miracles happening all over the place.

  4. sexrevcomments Says:

    I don't think most Christians have ever consciously processed the miracles of Scripture. If we truly believed, we'd act!