Beyond Reason

Morgan Meis meditates:

Some think of faith as a simple matter - you have it or you don't. For these people, further inquiry is unnecessary. Faith is not accessible to reason. Kierkegaard agrees, a little bit. He never thought that faith could be understood through logic or rational thought. Faith, for him, had to have an element of the absurd or it wouldn't be something special, something outside the normal rules. But he did not think of faith as simple. He saw it as the hardest thing, the greatest challenge, the center of the grand torture we call life. He once said, "If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."