A few weeks ago, I sat in Bigbee's at Western Michigan University and spoke with a Muslim woman about God. During the conversation, she unloaded a very emotional but sincere question. “One of my biggest problems with Christianity is you claim that Jesus was born of a virgin. How is that possible? Isn’t that…unbelievable?”

Yes, unbelievable but true. We serve a God who offers us the unbelievable and says, “Yes, in human eyes, this is impossible, and that’s why you must trust Me!”

The outrageous claims of Scripture will never satisfy our carnal mind which screams for evidence built upon human scales and finite judgments. It’s too threatening and…well…unbelievable.

So when every conversation has closed and every old man said his last word, it’s not an argument over the quantity or quality of evidence. The evidence for the unbelievable events of Scripture is so overwhelming that an objective judge would throw the case out of court as a mockery of the legal system if all the pieces were played on a fair scale. The nucleus of the issue is not about evidence, because we like to become the criterion of what evidence is valid and what isn’t, thus, subjecting all so-called objectivity to random preference. In the end, it’s about whether or not we were willing to believe in the God of the impossible whom we know exists and Who does the impossible every day.