How little this man knew about himself, and about what faith is and what produces faith in the soul! All men think they are reasonable, rational, fair minded, open to evidence. The unbeliever calls out for more evidence. ‘If God were to come down and do a miracle, then I would believe. This is what is missing, and if it was supplied, I would immediately believe. It is God’s fault that I do not have faith. A miracle would force me to believe, but I never saw one. God never caused me to witness one.’ This is a faith that is merely being forced to accept the truth of something, but the element of trust in God and love for him and repentance and repudiation of sin is not there. When we come to Christ in faith, we are putting our trust in a person, and we are trusting him to do something very real and very personal for us; we are trusting in his sacrifice for our sins. Our faith is uniting us with him. The rich man’s brothers still would not exercise faith. As Christ said, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign.’ Imagine a child saying to a kind and loving father, ‘I will only trust you if you prove you are worthy of trust’, after the father has spent a lifetime doing good to the child.