Dr. John Bergsma

Why should I be surprised if Mrs. Jesus through the centuries has come to positions that I don't immediately understand?

Why should I think that I have everything right and that Christ's church, which he established, you know, has no thoughts that go beyond what my thoughts have ever been.

So I made an act of faith.

I do believe this is the true church.

I do believe that the church participates in the authority of Christ.

So I'm going to submit my intellect to the church and I'm going to trust.

And that is faith seeking understanding.

That was a typically Augustinian move.

It's like, don't understand it yet, but I will believe it or I will...

And that's what trust is.

Trust oftentimes is not something that after you go through a whole bunch of rationalization, you completely understand.

You trust people, et cetera, that involves a little bit of risk.

So it's like, I'm gonna trust Mrs. Jesus

that she's right on this, even if I can't understand it completely myself.

Then later, within about two years of becoming Catholic, kind of all fell into place and the papal doctrines, the Marian doctrines and so on.

So if people are feeling like, oh, I got to get this completely figured out before I can become Catholic.

And what if I never get it figured out?

It's like the church doesn't require that of you.

The church only requires that you not publicly oppose it

and that you submit your intellect to the church with an act of trust.