Belief and Knowing

The following is written by Billy Graham.

I know little about nuclear fission or uranium and other elements used in making nuclear explosives. But I believe in the atomic bomb, and so do you. But how can we believe that it exists, if we don’t understand it or have any scientific knowledge about the way it works?

The answer is obvious. Others understand nuclear fission even if we don’t. And others have been what happens when a nuclear reaction takes place even if we haven’t. We read what they say, and we accept it as the testimony of reliable people.

I spend much of my time perusing the pages of a certain book – the Bible. In it I discover that centuries ago God acted and spoke, and reliable witnesses recorded it all. God even guided them as they wrote, so now I read the very words of God himself.

I may not understand everything there is to know about God, but I know him and trust him because of what I read of him in the Bible. Most of all, I know he came down to earth in the person of his Son, and “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).

• Billy Graham