"Through faith we understand." Hebrews 11:3
Faith begins where reason ends! As long as we can understand a thing, see it, taste it, handle it, we do not need faith to believe it. Psychologists and psychiatrists deal only in the realm of the physical and the psychical, but stop short of the spiritual. Beyond the physical and mental realm lies the infinity of faith. When we have reached the limit of logic, reason, and understanding, it is then we can rise up on the wings of faith and find that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
A certain learned psychiatrist, an avowed infidel, went to a gospel meeting with the intention of ridiculing the preacher. After the preacher had asserted his faith in Christ, the doctor challenged him and said to him, "How do you know there is, or ever was, a Christ? Have you ever seen Him?" "No!" "Have you ever tasted Him?" "No!" "Have you ever smelled Him?" "No!" He then asked, "Have you ever felt Him?" and the answer was "Yes." To the question "What does he feel like?" the answer was, "Only those who have felt Him could understand." "Aha," said the doctor, "four of the five sense: taste, smell, hearing, and sight, tell you nothing and the fifth, feeling, you can't explain." But the simple preacher had an answer. He said, "you are a doctor and deal with pain. Did you ever see a pain?" "No!" "Taste a pain?" "No!' "Smell a pain?" "No!' "Did you ever hear a pain?" "No!" "Feel one?" "Yes, I have!" "What does it feel like?" "Well, ah, ah, it, it, well you've got to experience it to understand it." "Yes, and so it is with salvation. To all others it is foolishness!"
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