since there are other automobiles out there with humans in them. And of course, eating out would become an utter impossibility. How could everything essential be known about the preparation and handling of the food? How could one even go to school? One has to rely on records that cannot always be verified. When one has not seen George Washington, how could one ever be sure there ever really was such a person. An on and on. It is not difficult to see that without faith (trust), life would very quickly be confined to the distance one could walk, and then not for very long, for starvation would set in. There could be no appeal to friends, for the person that does not believe anyone has no friends.

So, we do trust. All of us. Everyone exercises faith every day in countless ways. That faith is in fellow human beings. It is impossible to live without it. We see then, that the problem is never about having faith. Faith is not a strictly Christian advantage. It is peculiar though, that some professed Christians doubt whether they have any. The doubt must come from misunderstanding the very nature of faith. Somewhere along the line, the multitudes seem to have envisioned that faith is a thing. If it is a "thing", then it obviously must be received from some place. For the Christian, that would be God. But if one does not get it, there must be a reason. Either God does not want to give it, or I am unworthy, or etc. So I will pray more, or try to be more good, or etc. But, is faith a "thing?"

If a person asked you to taste something, would your first reaction be to look inside your inner being to see if you have