Life of Pi: Stories We Need to Survive (Hebrews 11:1)

In Life of Pi, a young man survives 227 days adrift in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger. Or does he? The film ends with Pi asking which story the writer prefers—the fantastic one with the tiger, or the brutal one with human violence. And so it goes with God, Pi concludes. The writer chooses the tiger. Hebrews defines faith as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Pi does not argue for God's existence through logic but through necessity—we choose the story that allows us to survive the unsurvivable. This is not wishful thinking; it is recognizing that some realities require frameworks beyond rationalism. Faith is not intellectual weakness; it is the courage to choose the tiger.