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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 54 - How to Combat Doubts About the Faith

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today's conversation centers on the question of how to combat doubts about the faith. More specifically, it focuses on the struggle (which is more common than is often acknowledged!) of Christians facing doubts. For these believers, their doubts are far different from the doubts of non-Christians looking to oppose the faith; the difference here is between honest questions joined with a longing for belief and obstinate refusal to believe. Unfortunately, Christians are often i...

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0:00.0

that skepticism does not come from too much thinking but too little thinking because here's what often

0:07.9

happens with those questions that a lot of people have. Did you just make that up? I probably not,

0:12.4

because out of anything up. That's so profound. I wish I was original. I probably heard it somewhere.

0:17.2

Did you say it again? Skept... I did. I wrote it down. Skepticism is not a derivative of too much

0:23.6

thinking but too little thinking. And so here's my encouragement to Christians that maybe you're

0:28.8

walking around and those questions come up in their mind is that don't treat it like an unchecked

0:35.4

email account. I don't know if you guys have ever had this before but like you have like emails

0:40.3

pop in and it's like I got 100, I got 200 but now the junk mail is going and at some point you've

0:44.4

got a thousand and you're like you know what? That's my junk email email now. Whenever I need to sign

0:48.9

up online I'm going to give them that one and I'm never going to check it. That's an abandoned email.

0:54.0

I think a lot of the times many Christians they treat their questions like that like an unchecked

1:01.9

email. They're like you know what? I'm going to put that away later. There's probably not an answer

1:05.3

to that. I don't know. I don't have time to explore that question right now and what happens is that

1:09.7

these questions build up and often they'll explode into outright skepticism and they'll abandon

1:17.8

their faith like an old email account and my thing is this is that although our faith does take

1:26.0

a large measure of belief the greatest of thinkers are Christians. God invites us to ask questions

1:35.2

to explore them. That's exactly right. There are answers to these questions and so I think that we

1:42.3

need to make a space for people who are walking around with unanswered questions so that that

1:47.5

doesn't that pressure doesn't build up in the back of their minds. Do you guys ever find

1:54.8

yourselves being haunted by 80s music? I know Oscar you were like 12. You're 12 now. I think Oscar

2:02.9

turned me on the 80s music like with a jazz theme. Do you remember that? You were Eddie where it's

2:08.6

like all 80s music but somebody redid it with jazz. Right. Did you ever listen to music in the 80s?

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