Historically, three questions have burned in men's minds: "who am I?", "where do I come from?", and "what is my purpose (for existing)?"

For the Christian, these are simple questions to answer: "I am a child and servant of God; I am created by Him for the purpose of His glory." We know these things because God tells us.

How do we know that God is? Because we are told in Scripture, and Scripture is the Word of God.

It all seems very circular. And certainly, a Christian may cite his or her relationship with the eternal Father and Creator, but that is not something that can be proven. Even among humanity, relationships are impossible to prove in any unassailable way --- I can see both you and your alleged friend, but I cannot prove that you may share the bonds of friendship. Certainly, I can see how you behave towards one another, and it may be consistent with the actions of close friends. But these actions may also be consistent with the actions of those wishing to wear friendship as a mask. You can assert your relationship, but you cannot prove it. To believe your assertion, I must take your word for it.

This taking of one's word without empirical evidence is called faith. When you tell me that you are close friends with another person, I must either accept what you say on faith, or choose to disbelieve you.

This sort of acceptance is core to Christianity or to any other worldview. If I accept Islam, I must accept it on faith, since I cannot know what Mohammed may or may not have seen in a vision. If I accept Atheism, I must accept it on faith, since I cannot empirically prove that there is no god. If I accept Christianity, I must accept it on faith, since I cannot give tangible evidence that Jesus Christ was the son of God, nor that his death cleansed my sins.

Why then do so many clamor for evidence? If these things are all taken on faith, why do men continue to search for something to analyze?

Because in any matter of faith, there are two options: to believe or to disbelieve. The sinful heart of man is forever a skeptic of Christ --- until Christ himself changes that heart.

For this reason, the unrepentant world scoffs at Christians, those who have accepted on faith the claims of an ancient Scripture, and who have felt the unprovable calling in their souls to trust an inevidential God, who cannot be understood by human faculties of reason.

The world attacks Christianity because it is, in its response to those fundamental inquiries of existence, unreasonable. This manic unreasonable quality is what makes it correct.

And yet, that very same mania that illogically grants the Christian sanity drives all others to madness --- to pools of cosmic chemicals in a void with no origin of their own, to infinitesimal energy suddenly exploding to fill and become the vast universe, or to a sort of "afterword" to the Scriptures that annulls the very words that precede it.

It should come as no surprise to Christians that Scripture itself forewarns of this rampant intellectual anarchy:

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." --- 1 Corinthians 1:18

Christians are those who cast off the ridiculous burdens of proof and evidence and instead take on the perfectly rational mind of the child; we receive the kingdom of heaven "like a child," so that we may enter it. (Mark 10:15)

For Christ's burden is much lighter than the burden of proof we so often wish to wear --- and his yoke is easy.

Only with the childlike mind and heart can sing, as so many of us have long ago,

"Jesus loves me this I know,
For the Bible tells me so."