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Hello friends, today on StudyScriptureOnline I want to take just a couple of minutes to chat with you about … Doubt.
In Christian circles today doubt generally has a bad reputation. Belief and faith tend to be the hallmarks of a Christian, not doubt and skepticism. But I want to suggest to you that an honest doubter and a truth-seeking skeptic are far more honorable than those who profess to believe everything the Christian faith teaches but never take the time or effort to examine their personal views. Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” It’s also true that the unexamined viewpoint is not worth holding.
I have always been the kind of person who wanted to know “why?” I got into a lot of trouble in school for questioning things that weren’t supposed to be questioned. I quit seminary after two years and enrolled in the philosophy department of a university graduate school. I wanted to know what the world was saying about the critical issues of life and eternity, and I wanted to know how to analyze their arguments. The sojourn I took didn’t destroy my faith-on the contrary, it actually strengthened it. I eventually went back to seminary and graduated.
My thesis is that doubt is not evil; in fact, it is inevitable for a thinking person to doubt. And it can produce good results so long as doubt does not itself become our creed or we become proud of our doubt. Rather than be embarrassed by our doubts, we can be encouraged to know that we stand in good company. When the eleven disciples met with Jesus in Galilee after His resurrection, some among that famous group weren’t sure it was for real. The Apostle Matthew, an eyewitness of the encounter, later wrote, “When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted” (Matthew 28:17). That’s talking about the Twelve disciples themselves!
In an Easter Sunday sermon about the resurrection of Jesus, the very centerpiece of our faith, I chose to share the story through the eyes of one of those doubters, the most famous skeptic in the NT, a man whose doubt has even become part of his name-Doubting Thomas. I think he’s gotten a bad rap.
For further exploration of this topic, click the link below, which will take you to a sermon entitled, “In Celebration of Doubt.”
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