A quick look at what it means to have a rational faith. 


JP Moreland “Love God with all your mind”

o   In this way, Jesus and Paul were continuing a style of persuasion peppered throughout the Old Testament prophets. Regularly, the prophets appealed to evidence to justify belief in the biblical God or in the divine authority of their inspired message: fulfilled prophecy, the historical fact of miracles, the inadequacy of finite pagan deities to be a cause of such a large, well-ordered universe compared to the God of the Bible, and so forth. They did not say, "God said it, that settles it, you should believe it!" They provided a rational defense for their claims.

John 20:31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that by believing you may have life in His name.

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