What are we to say in response to this? Well, in the first place, although it is true that Jesus does advocate a childlike faith, he never advocates a childish faith. This is precisely where many Christians get confused. When Jesus states that we must have a childlike faith in order to enter the kingdom of heaven, he means that our faith must be implicitly accepting and trusting—just like a child’s. He does not mean that our faith is to be on the intellectual level of a child. This is clear in the