Is It Wrong? (Please Read, In Need Of Help)

[Scheherazade]

Hope Jordan is OK. It has been almost a month since he last showed up on the Forum.

[DapperDrake]

I'm sure he's fine, well here's my response to his OP:

I'd say doubt is healthy, I'm not sure that's a Christian response but there you have it. I'd say if you had no doubt then there would be reason to be concerned about your sanity.
The fact is that believing in the supernatural God in this day and age is hard, there is so much weighing against that belief in society, popular culture, science, and philosophy that to have a firm belief you either need to be very adept at putting your head in the sand or you need to be able to accept contradiction and a loss of rational reasoning.
Don't feel bad, I'd say 99% of people who have no doubts about God in this day and age are either idiots or lunatics - be glad that you don't fall into this category because that's where zealots are born.

If you love God then just pick up the shards of the broken vase of Christianity and use some "special" glue to put the pieces back together. Once you've done that, handle with care, the glue is only as strong as you let it be.

My minister always used to say that a healthy faith isn't a blind faith (just thought I'd inject something Christian into my post).

[NikolaiI]

Don't feel bad, I'd say 99% of people who have no doubts about God in this day and age are either idiots or lunatics - be glad that you don't fall into this category because that's where zealots are born.

You should remember that's only people you know. What if no one is an idiot or lunatic?

There isn't anything wrong with having doubts. But there isn't anything wrong with having no doubts, either. Having faith is one of the greatest benedictions we can receive. There was a study that found a rat could swim, 10 or 20 times longer if it had faith it would find a shore, before it drowned.

[ctalerico]

Doubt is the greatest form of faith--in one's self. To be fair to yourself give yourself permission to strip as much of your indoctrinations from your mindset as is possible. Then explore all faiths and denominations and no faith and you will eventually find yourself and what you believe, not what you were brought up to believe or told to believe but what you truly believe. Be brave, explore, face yourself in the mirror and have faith in yourself to know your own mind and heart. Good luck with your journey.

[DapperDrake]

I think having faith is having doubts but believing anyway because you think its right, having no doubts and believing isn't faith its being brainwashed. Brainwashing may empower you (as per the example with the rat) but its very dangerous.