How Certain Is Your Faith?

Is your faith certain enough to stand up against the doubts and
different ideas out there? Fr. Mike shares insight about certainty
from Dr. Montague Brown, professor of philosophy at St. Anselm
College, New Hampshire. Dr. Brown says certainty is intellectual
belief based off the evidence. It’s not blind belief. Someone with
certainty is not going to change their mind without new objective
evidence. Many times people change their mind not because of new
evidence, but just because of new people in their lives. They’ve
simply been exposed to new behavior. This happens to students in
college quite often. Christianity is evidential. It hinges upon an
indisputable event, the life and death of Jesus. If you’re from a
small town, you may think the way you were raised is just part of
your small town’s way of thinking, and that a well-known university
in a big city must have a broader, more enlightened way of
thinking. But really, the university is just as subject to its way
of thinking as the small town is. The culture of a university is
just as insulated as that of a small town. Don’t get so caught up
in the culture around you that you give in to new ideas without
evidence—whether that culture is a university, a new workplace, new
friends, new family, or a new city. Let your faith always be backed
up by the evidence. Fr. Mike is certain in his belief that
Christianity will then always come out on top.