I love this little bit from Francis Schaeffer on questions and doubts. He is discussing “faith like a child” and seeking intelligent answers to questions pertaining to matters of the faith.
Too often, in Francis Shaeffer’s view, these two were played off of each other as incompatible. I like the balance he strikes here.
“But someone will say, ‘Didn’t Jesus say that, to be saved, you have to be as a little child?’ Of course he did. But did you ever see a little child who didn’t ask questions? People who use this argument must never have listened to a little child or been one. My four children gave me a harder time with their endless flow of questions than university people ever have. . . . What Jesus was talking about is that the little child, when he has an adequate answer, accepts the answer. He has the simplicity of not having a built-in grid whereby, regardless of the validity of the answer, he rejects it.”