SUSPENDING JUDGMENT OF GOD
We have emphasized all along that the Christian faith is warranted belief and is therefore profoundly rational. This means that we have sure and sufficient reasons at the point of coming to know God (the point of original assent), but this is not the case for every question in life. At such times we see through a glass darkly or, as it were, through a keyhole partially. Rather the truth is this: we can always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but we cannot always know what God is doing and why. To put it another way, the rationality of faith is implacably opposed to absurdity but has no quarrel with mystery; it can tell the difference between the two. Christianity’s contention with rationalism is not that it has too much reason in it, but that it has very little else. When a Christian comes to faith his understanding and his trust go hand…
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