Is it Wrong to Doubt God?
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
5 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Mike Erre joins Kaitlyn to tackle a big question that is also deeply personal: is it wrong to doubt God? Mike shows us some ways we misunderstand both doubt and faith, brings us to Bible passages that help us understand doubt more clearly, and reminds us that God welcomes our questions.
0:00 - Theme Song
4:02 - Is it Ok to Doubt God?
8:53 - Lament vs. Doubt
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17:55 - Is Doubt Intellectual?
31:26 - Kid Answer
33:51 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we take a kid question about God, theology, or the Bible, and find a scholar to answer it. |
| 0:08.0 | This week we are tackling a pretty huge question, a question that spans all of Christian history and pops up all throughout the Bible and has effects on lots of different areas of Christian theology. |
| 0:20.0 | But this huge, big, time and space-spanning |
| 0:23.6 | question is also a small question, small enough that it often pops up in each of us. A deeply |
| 0:31.5 | personal question that strikes at the heart of our struggles to live a faithful Christian life. |
| 0:40.3 | Is it wrong to doubt God? Maybe we've heard people frown on people in the church who doubt. Maybe we've heard people |
| 0:45.8 | quote verses, like the one from James chapter one where it says that anyone who doubts should |
| 0:50.6 | not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and |
| 0:55.7 | unstable in all they do. Maybe we've been terrified that we would doubt and be abandoned by God. |
| 1:03.0 | Maybe though we've heard people champion doubt. Like having lots of angst and uncertainty is |
| 1:08.6 | more true, more authentic. |
| 1:14.2 | Maybe we've experienced people who scoff at our simple faith, |
| 1:16.9 | like a truly mature faith is full of doubts. |
| 1:21.9 | Perhaps, though, neither of those simple answers is quite right. |
| 1:25.6 | Today, Mike Erie will help us think better about doubt, |
| 1:29.5 | what it is, how to handle it, and what real faith looks like. |
| 1:33.1 | I don't know. That doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:40.8 | Curiously. |
| 1:46.2 | Mike Erie, thank you so much for coming back again, maybe three times. |
| 1:50.1 | This is the third time. |
| 1:51.5 | I'm honored. |
| 1:52.5 | I don't know if that's a record or we're desperate. |
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