God’s Reaction to Your Doubts
Scott Maze
Luke
Where the Bible says, ''Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen'' (Hebrews 11:1), we live in a culture that doubts everything. In 2001, Katie Couric told Today Show audiences that seven percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in a Nevada desert. Speaking of doubt, did you hear about the Catholic priest who doubts the Holocaust ever occurred? British-born Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson told a Swedish TV reporter that no one was killed in Nazi gas chambers and that no more than 300,000 Jews died in concentration camps, rather than the widely accepted figure of 6 million Jews exterminated. He has since apologized. Doubt is everywhere. Some doubt global warming and climate change while others simply doubt themselves. No doubt about it, doubt is popular in our culture.
And a lot of our doubts focus on the person of Jesus Christ and Christianity. Religious doubt is a complex organism. Doubt can lead to unbelief and this can be devastating. But doubt can also serve to strengthen faith. Luke has written his gospel to dispel doubt and to increase our faith: ''it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught'' (Luke 1:3-4).
Now, sometimes, we have good reason to doubt. A man stood up in a Pentecostal church and addressed the congregation: ''Thus saith the Lord, 'As I was with Abraham when he led the children of Israel across the desert, so shall I be with you.'''He sat down, and his wife whispered something in his ear. Then he stood back up. ''Thus saith the Lord, 'I was wrong. It was Moses.'''
More seriously, Luke shows us Jesus answering the perplexing questions of John the Baptist.
But first, who is John the Baptist, you might ask? Luke introduces John the ...
Scott Maze
Luke
Where the Bible says, ''Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen'' (Hebrews 11:1), we live in a culture that doubts everything. In 2001, Katie Couric told Today Show audiences that seven percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in a Nevada desert. Speaking of doubt, did you hear about the Catholic priest who doubts the Holocaust ever occurred? British-born Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson told a Swedish TV reporter that no one was killed in Nazi gas chambers and that no more than 300,000 Jews died in concentration camps, rather than the widely accepted figure of 6 million Jews exterminated. He has since apologized. Doubt is everywhere. Some doubt global warming and climate change while others simply doubt themselves. No doubt about it, doubt is popular in our culture.
And a lot of our doubts focus on the person of Jesus Christ and Christianity. Religious doubt is a complex organism. Doubt can lead to unbelief and this can be devastating. But doubt can also serve to strengthen faith. Luke has written his gospel to dispel doubt and to increase our faith: ''it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught'' (Luke 1:3-4).
Now, sometimes, we have good reason to doubt. A man stood up in a Pentecostal church and addressed the congregation: ''Thus saith the Lord, 'As I was with Abraham when he led the children of Israel across the desert, so shall I be with you.'''He sat down, and his wife whispered something in his ear. Then he stood back up. ''Thus saith the Lord, 'I was wrong. It was Moses.'''
More seriously, Luke shows us Jesus answering the perplexing questions of John the Baptist.
But first, who is John the Baptist, you might ask? Luke introduces John the ...
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