Is it Wrong to Doubt? | with Travis Dickinson
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Is it wrong to have doubts about your Christian faith? Many people assume that doubt is the opposite of faith and that wandering among the hard questions of faith will lead us further away from God. True believers, the assumption goes, never waver in their confidence in the fundamental truths of Christianity.
Professor and philosopher Travis Dickinson disagrees! Instead, he says, our doubts and hard questions about the Christian faith are actually an important way we can express our commitment and love to God. Doubt isn’t our destination, but as Christians, it's in our job description to ask questions as we approach God with intellectual curiosity in order to love Him with all our heart, soul, and mind.
In this week's podcast episode, Travis sits down with Frank to share insights from his new book, Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amid Doubts and Big Questions.
Some of the big questions they address include:
Do we have to be 100% certain that Christianity is true in order to be a Christian?
What's the difference between "deconstructing" and "wandering with purpose"?
Why isn't God more obvious?
What does it really mean to have faith?
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Travis' website: https://www.travisdickinson.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Does truth exist? |
| 0:03.3 | Because you have faith, does that make this book cool? |
| 0:05.6 | Does God exist? |
| 0:07.4 | So when someone says there is no truth, |
| 0:09.8 | if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say? |
| 0:12.6 | Is that true? |
| 0:15.2 | They don't think Christianity is true. |
| 0:17.7 | They're talked out of it. |
| 0:20.0 | You know why they're talked out of it? |
| 0:22.0 | Because they've never been talked into it. |
| 0:24.2 | Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek. |
| 0:32.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, do you ever have any doubts about Christianity? |
| 0:39.0 | Are you certain that Christianity is true? |
| 0:42.8 | By the way, do you have to be certain? |
| 0:44.6 | 100% certain in order to be a Christian? |
| 0:47.8 | And by the way, if there is a God, why is it any more obvious? |
| 0:52.2 | Aren't people just out there crying? |
| 0:54.0 | God, where are you? |
| 0:55.4 | If you do exist, show yourself to me. |
| 0:59.2 | And then the heavens appear to be silent. |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, God could just show up and make sure that everyone knows he exists. |
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