This is your only chance. It's for the lad. Don't reveal too much about your own convictions and remember that a little pretending can go a long way. But he will not. The response of Jesus to such intellectual anguish is profoundly moving.
All discussion stops.
Jesus is satisfied. The child is promptly healed. It proves that doublemindedness does not shut us out of God's concern. It shows that God does not demand that we give up our intellectual honesty as the price for His love. Jesus did not leave him there.