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Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
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Brief Overview - Skeptic: Do you identify as a skeptic, one who grapples with the important questions of life, being wary of cookie-cutter solutions? While the prospect of trusting in Jesus may seem overwhelming and laden with considerable uncertainties, you might discover compelling insights encouraging you to consider playing a role in the Christian Story by - Clicking - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
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Doubting Thomas
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So the other disciples told him, We have seen the Lord.
John 20:25
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist
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When God Whispers Your Name
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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
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Where I Find God
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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Cold Case Christianity
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Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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He who created us without our help with not save use without our consent.
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Dealing With Doubt
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Intelligent skeptic fascinated by what this Christian says! (Interview)
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Doubting God
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It's OK To Have Doubts
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence of Belief
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Christ and the Dramas of Doubt, Studies in the Problem of Evil
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Faith and Doubt
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10 Answers for Skeptics
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Good News About Worry, The: Applying Biblical Truth to Problems of Anxiety and Fear
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and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.
Mark 1:15
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A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.
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He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:18
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Professor Becomes a Skeptic
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What Should Every Skeptic Look for in the Gospels?
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The Historical Evidence For Jesus's Resurrection That Even Skeptics Believe
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Seeking God Thru Doubt
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Is Doubt Always Bad?
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What Skeptics Want Christians To Know
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Jesus Complex: Lord Liar Or Lunatic
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A Christian Physicist Examines the Big Bang Theory
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A Skeptics Quest
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Filming God: A Journey From Skepticism to Faith
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7 Truths That Changed the World: Discovering Christianity's Most Dangerous Ideas
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Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty
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Mere Christianity
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More Than a Carpenter
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Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not
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The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus
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Who Made God?: And Answers to Over 100 Other Tough Questions of Faith
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When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences
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Confessions of A Christian Skeptic
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What is Skepticism Good For?
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Skeptics Respond To The Evidence For The Resurrection of Jesus
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Dealing With Christian Doubt
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What do I do if I've tried to believe in Jesus but can't?
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.
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Another meme of the religious meme complex is called faith. It means blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.
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In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
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"that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise.” And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Mag′dalene and Jo-an′na and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them."
Luke 24 7:11
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Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted.
Matthew 28:16-17
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Jesus said to him, Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.
John 20:29
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Then He said to Thomas; Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.
John 20:27
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
- Frederick Buechner -
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I still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
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Beer With Jesus
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Here I Go Again
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I Prayed For You
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The Prayer
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Ashes of Eden
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Doubt isnt the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
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One Minute Answers To Skeptics
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that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise.
Luke 24 7:11
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The Resurrection of Jesus, A Rational Inquiry (Thesis)
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"he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. . . . After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him."
John 6:54-66
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Answers To Questions Skeptics Ask
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Monday Morning
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Show Me The Way
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD) -
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Nothing is certain except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin -
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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
- Miguel de Unamuno -
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
- Soren Kierkegaard -
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt.
- Yann Martel -
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What five minimal facts will even skeptical scholars accept
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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"I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it’s not for me."
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Atheist turned Christian
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Doubt everything, Find your own light.
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Im a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.
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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
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Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. . ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.
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The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask
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Know Doubt: Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith
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Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World
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Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith
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Faith in the Shadows: Finding Christ in the Midst of Doubt
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The Sunnier Side of Doubt
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So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
James 2:17
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No Doubt About It
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"And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matthew 14:28-31
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Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Mark 16:14
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
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The Problem of Jesus: Answering a Skeptics Challenges to the Scandal of Jesus
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
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The Skeptical Believer: Telling Stories to Your Inner Atheist
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
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Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
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Doubts can make you a philosopher, but only faith can make you an apostle.
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skepticism can never provide firm ground under a mans feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize) -
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Becoming a Christian and dealing with doubt
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When Doubt Trips You Up
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The Honest Skeptic Prayer
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The Philosophy of Jesus
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And Peter answered him, Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water.
Matthew 14:28-31
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so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.
Mark 4:12
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"he said, To you it has been given to know "the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
Luke 8:10
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And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6
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I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:13
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Reason And Belief In God
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But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
James 1:6
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Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and never doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, it will be done.
Matthew 21:21
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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"The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith."
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What to Do When You Doubt Your Faith
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Professional Skeptic: One who constantly debates the factors involved but never comes to a personal conclusion. Like a painter who evaluates the chemistry of his paint and canvas, but never endeavors to commit to creating a painting.
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To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
- George MacDonald -
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
- Voltaire -
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas -
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel (Nobel Prize) -
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Cynicism is a self imposed blindness.
- Stephen Colbert -
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wild -
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Skepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would com to a standstill.
- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) -
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Do You Struggle with Doubts?
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for we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7
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Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?
John 11:40
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And Jesus said to him, If you can! All things are possible to him who believes.
Mark 9:23
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Penn Jillette discusses a gift from an audience member.
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The Myth of Certainty
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What Does God Think About Me When I Doubt?
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Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
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The Thomas Factor: Using Your Doubts To Get Closer To God
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If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein (Nobel, PhD) -
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Faith is nobler than the power of doubt.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
- William Jennings Bryan -
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
- Peggy Noonan -
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When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.
- Shannon L. Alder -
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I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon ones thoughts.
- Elisabeth Elliot -
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Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
- Rollo May -
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Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God
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Jesus Loves Doubters
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Is God Mad When We Doubt?
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didnt rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said?
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it seemed good to me (Luke) also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may know the truth concerning the things of which you have been informed.
Luke 1:3-4
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When I am afraid, I put my trust in thee.
Psalm 56:3
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He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16
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But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts?
Luke 24:37-38
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your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life.
Deuteronomy 28:66
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Trouble Believing in God
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Can a Christian Doubt God and Still Have Faith?
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A Checklist for the Honest Skeptic
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Get The Doubt Out
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Science says the first word on everything and the last word on nothing.
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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:13
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On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
Psalm 62:7
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
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After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It
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Doubt
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But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.
John 1:12
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.
Proverbs 3:5
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So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.
Romans 10:17
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy.
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Why I Started to Investigate Christianity
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Dealing With Emotional Doubt
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7 Prominent Christian Thinkers Who Wrestled With Doubt
Max Lucado
Lee Strobel
Francis Collins (PhD)
C. S. Lewis
Alister McGrath (PhD)
Alvin Plantinga (PhD)
John Piper (PhD)
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