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Faith and Doubt We need to get comfortable with the fact that doubts are part of faith. I think sometimes the problem with we church types is that we`ve somehow communicated that doubts are wrong or sinful, which strikes me as kind of odd, given that the Bible is more a book about people who doubted than it is a book about faith. Abraham doubted, Moses doubted, the disciples doubted, Thomas doubts. One of my favorite scenes in the whole Bible is right after God has divided the Red Sea in two so that the Israelites could escape from slavery. Just one chapter later, just one chapter later, the Israelites don`t have any water so they start whining to Moses. "We`re going to die." "You`re a terrible leader." "Where`s God?" Just one chapter before they had seen an ocean divide in two. I don`t know about you, that would have held me for a while. I bet if I saw that I could have faith for an entire 24 hours! I`m sure of it. The Bible is filled with doubters, and that`s because doubts are a part of faith. Jesus didn`t say to us, "I want you to have sure and certain empirical knowledge." He said, "Have faith." And faith always implies a little bit of doubt. By: Scott Dudley - November 20, 2006 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus (1) Comments

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faith in God- jesus all i learn from jesus until now is exactly what i learnd from mohammad in holy koran ,shows they are words from one God and i trust GOD_jesus and i love them By: anonymous - January 08, 2008 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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what happen when someone fall again after confession to Jesus By: lional abraham - January 04, 2008 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus how many times do we tell others JUST TRUST ME its a good lesson to learn to have anything even one more day of life we must trust GOD to give it URL: http://www.poetrypoem.com/charlax By: charles hice - June 24, 2007 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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Have Faith (Trust) in God -Dive! URL: http://www.greatcom.org/laws/englishkgp/default.htm By: Doug - June 12, 2007 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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Critical level of faith On a scale from -10 to 0 to +10. We could put a person`s faith. A person who doesn`t believe in Jesus is -10. A person who believes without a doubt is +10. A person who`s unsure would be 0. Therefore, it seems that if a person has an very small bit of faith, such as level 1, then that`s enough for God to heal them? ''I.e. Luke 8:48'' Well, actually it`s unclear if that`s enough. Maybe Jesus requires them to be +4. But then again +4 might be the point when they actually come to Jesus. Bit confusing, but a little exploration nonetheless. By: Chris Peacock - January 26, 2007 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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Faith without need to request. It seems that faith in Jesus is was heals people. Not people asking him the question of, can you heal me? However, the question is on the whole proved to be a reflection of their faith. By: Chris Peacock - January 19, 2007 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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Rebuking X, means X = sin? Unsure. Mark 4:29-40. Jesus rebuked wind & sea. Therefore, wind and sea are evil things? No. Because thinking about it, when Peter said something to Jesus, Jesus responding by rebuking Peter and saying stand behind me Satan. Wind and Sea were misbehaving/taunting/threatening disciples. And that is why they were rebuked. Right? By: Chris Peacock - January 19, 2007 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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What happens when a `mountain` doesn`t move? The natural verdict from reading Mark 11:22-24 is that the person praying has: 1. doubted , 2. not had sufficient belief that God would do the request. Dangerous! Especially if not read whilst looking at other parts of scripture, such as when Jesus said God doesn`t give people things that are bad for them, even if people ask for them. That underlines the power rests in God`s hand and not ours. God is not a genie giving us 3 wishes. He is the one we have a relationship with. By: Chris Peacock - January 13, 2007 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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We need to act on our beliefs We need to act on our beliefs to see that they`re real. This is the most important thing about doubt. We`ve got to act on our beliefs to see if they`re real, that`s the only way we`re going to know. When Jesus calls Peter to get out of the boat and walk on water he doesn`t say to Peter, "but first you might want to conduct some experiments on water tension and weight dispersal to see if it`ll work." He just says, "You`ll find out if you try it." We become convinced of Jesus not so much through evidence and logic, but by doing the things he tells us to do and seeing that they`re real. When I was a kid my grandparents lived on a farm, and my grandfather had built a bridge over a river that ran through their property. Now, my grandfather was a farmer, not a structural engineer, so I easily could have doubted his bridge building abilities. But because I walked across that bridge every day that I was there, I knew that he was just as good at building a bridge as he was at growing wheat. Because I acted on my beliefs. It`s as I have given some of my money to God`s purposes and watched him provide, it`s as I have served others in his name and watched him work through me, that I`ve become convinced that he`s there. I have a friend who was an agnostic. She went on a short-term mission trip with a church to South Africa and ended up becoming convinced that Jesus was real. Partly because she saw sin and injustice up close for the first time, and she started to feel in her heart that if a price wasn`t paid for all of that sin, then there was no justice in the world. Then she realized that`s part of what Jesus is doing on the cross, he`s paying the price for all of those sins, but in a way that provides mercy for the sinner. But more importantly, on that mission trip she was asked to work with the poor and oppressed and to come up with the right thing to say to them. She didn`t know how she was going to do it, but every time she felt God giving her the right words at the right time. She knew it wasn`t her, she knew it was God. That convinced her that Jesus was real. It was by doing the things that Jesus tells us to do, like serve the poor, that she discovered that he was there. By: Scott Dudley - November 20, 2006 - Public Category: Have Faith (Trust) in God - Jesus

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