{"id":137,"date":"2008-01-04T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-01-04T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T14:08:51","slug":"doubting-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Doubting faith vs. doubting God"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m reading the book "Finding Faith" by Brian McLaren.<\/a> It has been very interesting so far. He ponders questions like why there are so many different religions, different forms of believes and views. I enjoyed to read about atheism, agnosticism and pluralism. This morning, while enjoying coffee in bed, I read about doubting ones faith. Here is part of it that I think many of my fellow travelers in Christ need to hear.<\/p>\n

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"My faith is my own creation – a world view, a paradigm, a map of life, a set of guiding principles – that I am assembling and reassembling from what I read, who I know and respect, what I experience, and so forth. My faith isn’t perfect, and it isn’t static. It is guaranteed by my finitude to be incomplete, inaccurate in many places , out of proportions, in need of continuing mid course  corrections. Therefore, it deserves to be doubted at times- doubted so it can be corrected. If I didn’t doubt my faith, I would protect it, defend it, not amend it."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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"So I’m learning that when I doubt my faith, I don’t have to doubt God."<\/span>
                                                                                     "Finding Faith by Brian McLaren p. 203"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My journey with Jesus started 30 years ago. I went through many different phases on that path and sometimes it was very bumpy. Doubts is something I encountered often and sometimes very severe. But going through it my faith in Jesus prevailed and proved to become stronger. Specially in those areas where I doubted. Because it is a relationship I pursue and not a religion I follow a mysterious path of discovering an invisible God who only can be known by revealing Himself to me. My knowledge of God is very limited even after 30 years. As older I get as more I realize how little I know. Still the little I know and I experienced has become very important  for my faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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