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Some days you’re confident God is working. Other days, your prayers feel like they bounce off the ceiling. Doubt doesn’t always mean disbelief—it can be part of the journey. But what do we do when that doubt feels heavy?
Can you genuinely believe in Christ and still wrestle with hard questions?
When your faith has felt shaky, what helped bring clarity or peace?
I have heard that doubt is the growing edge of faith. I also believe that faith ordinarily seeks understanding and God is pleased with this. So, doubt is a step toward gaining understanding. If you catch someone in the middle of the process of learning anything, it may appear that they have doubts, but these doubts are normal to the process of ever learning and growing. Doubts suspend thoughts temporarily until either certainty comes or faith is declared. Sometimes certainty is the opposite of faith. It can keep one from believing when it is believing that is needed as it often is in the spirit world.
Psalms 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? KJV
Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. KJV
The contrast of moods by David shows that prophets had doubts.
John 20:24-25 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. KJV
Jesus ’ own disciples had doubts.
So yeah, I think it’s OK.
When we doubt is when we have to stand in faith no matter what.
Romans tells us we have all been given measure of faith.
So we have enough faith to believe.
We just need to use it all the time
Believing while struggling with doubt is still belief.
Think about it.
Yes one can.
Just because one has accepted Jesus does not mean that " instantly " one has all the answers.
John14:23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
Note the spirit will teach, teaching is explaining, and he will remind us of Jesus’s words.
That means we have to read, study the bible in order that the Spirit can give us the insight to what it means.
So there is nothing wrong or sinful about having doubts or questions, if anything it is sinful not to encourage them and to provide explanations and answers.
