As an adult believer & has time & luxury of higher education, do you think you have the responsibility to be aware of the ground/s of why you believe?

“Why do you believe in God?” What if such question has been asked to you? Will you be able to answer it? How will you answer such question? What reasons will you present as to why you believe in God? As a believer, how will you defend your belief?

As an adult believer, we must be responsible to be aware and to understand the grounds of why we believe. This is true especially for those who have been granted the time and the luxury of higher education. Not knowing the reasons why we believe is being a blind believer. We believe without true understanding. We believe for the sake of believing.

Why then do we need to know the reasons of why we believe? Take this situation. If our friend tells us that he can eat fire, we won't believe him right away. Isn't it? Instead, we would want and ask of him to prove his claim, to show us that he can really eat fire. Similarly, we need to be aware of the grounds of why we believe because we want basis for our belief. It is in the human nature to only believe in something once it is proven. As an adult believer with critical thinking, it is very difficult to believe in God without any basis even if God's existence can never be proven. In other words, in as much as it is in the human nature to only believe in something that is proven, it is in the nature of a true believer to desire for, even a little, a basis for his belief; that despite the truth that God's existence can never be proven, he, as a true believer, has something to hold on to.

Among the millions of believers in this world, not all are given the opportunity of time and luxury of higher education. Since we have been given such opportunity, we must grab and make the most of it. This opportunity gives us the chance know and understand things. Thus, we must be responsible enough to utilize our chances like being aware of the grounds of why we believe. True believers believe with understanding, and when it is beyond understanding, faith works.