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You said — Our preconceived notions and common sense may become a problem. In fact, isn’t faith the opposite of common sense?

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What you said up above — may need some more explanation before I fully understand what you’re really asking or where you want to go with that. I can speak to what comes to my mind when I read what you said — but I’m confused enough by what you’re asking that I may be answering something different than what you really want. I hope you understood that, because I’m not sure I did... :-)

Okay..., is faith the opposite of common sense? No, I don’t see it that way. Some people see “faith” as almost like believing in the unbelievable or the irrational. I think faith is believing in the rational and believable and what proceeds from common sense based on God’s revelation.

If we base our common sense on the world that we recognize as coming from our Creator God, and understand things as stated from His revelation to us, about many things we would have no ability to know and understand — then our common sense is based upon a Biblical worldview and faith is the logical and reasoning extension of God’s revelation.

So, faith is full of common sense, based upon a Biblical worldview and a logical and reasoning view and extension of that same worldview.

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To me, faith is reasonable, faith is justifiable, faith is common sense and faith is what is natural in God’s world and in His view.