biblical faith is a kind of knowledge that is worth acting on with eyes wide open, because it is based on good reasons. So how did our understanding of faith get off track? “Faith is the opposite of logic,” says an article on a popular Christian site.1 If the author meant to say that faith is illogical, I heartily disagree. But I think I can see what the author meant. The Bible is full of accounts that defy natural explanation, from the parting of the Red