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When Did Faith Become a Checklist of Certainty?
How modern Christianity lost the plot — and why it’s time to get it back
“When we say faith equals certainty, we create a brittle belief system. One crack, and the whole thing shatters. That’s not trust — that’s fear in disguise.” — Peter Enns
Faith Didn’t Start with Certainty
It didn’t start this way. Faith wasn’t always about checking boxes, lining up doctrines, and locking everything down with airtight certainty.
Once, faith was risk. It was movement. It was trust in the face of not knowing. But something shifted.
Somehow, along the way, faith was hijacked.
It got dressed up in theological armor and handed clipboards. And many of us started calling that faith. The question is: when did that happen, and why did we let it?
Abraham Didn’t Get a Creed. He Got a Command.
Let’s start with Abraham. Genesis 12:1 says, “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.’”
That’s it. No road map. No GPS coordinates. Just: “Go.”
