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The God Who Reigns over the Coronavirus
of the world. Why? Because, while true and helpful to a
point, they cannot be followed by an eight-year-old child,
a newly encountered preliterate villager in a remote South
Pacific jungle, or an ordinary person in the West with little
formal education. And yet it seemed obvious to me that
God intended for such people to hear the word of God and
believe—without leaping into the dark.
BIBLICAL FAITH IS NOT A LEAP IN THE DARK
The biblical view of faith is not a leap in the dark. It is
warranted and well-grounded. It’s called faith not because
it has no foundation. It’s called faith because it involves
trust. Jesus didn’t call the believers blind; he called the
unbelievers blind (Matt. 15:14). “Seeing they do not see”
(Matt. 13:13). Saving faith in God’s word is based on “seeing.”
Real seeing.
Seeing what? The Bible answers like this: Satan does all
he can to blind “the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them
from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God” (2 Cor. 4:4).
In other words, there is a kind of spiritual light that shines
through the gospel—the biblical story of salvation. What
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