I notice that many well educated and intelligent people do not believe the revelation of God to the Israelites or the revelation of Jesus. They cite human experience to explain why that revelation cannot be true. But can human intelligence really fathom God? I don’t think so. If it could, there would be widespread agreement of what God is like. This is not the case. Human reasoning has conjured up many contradictory opinions of what God is like and what God can do.
God’s revelation explains who he is and what he expects from us. I can believe it, if I want to. The only caution, for me, would be to be careful that I accept what God really did reveal and not some human distortion of it. Much of what God revealed is in Holy Scripture, and biblical scholars have worked hard at accurate translations. I can be pretty confident that I will find a reliable translation of Holy Scripture. If God revealed that he created heaven and earth, humans and angels, I am able to believe it. If educated human experts say God does not exist. I, with the same effort, can believe them. But I have a choice because both claims cannot both be true.
I don’t need to make an extensive human investigation or earn a degree in science or theology to be capable of deciding what to believe. All I need is confidence that I am reading an accurate translation of what God revealed. For me, it’s as simple as that: if God revealed it, it must be true.
Maurice A. Williams
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