Is doubt a healthy and important part of faith?

Question

Much like to have a coin, you have two sides.

Faith isn't blind. Justice is.

Answer 1

Yes, it is. Without doubt, you don't question things, and probe for answers deeply. Doubting allows your faith to take on a deeper dimension if you ask questions openly about what you don't understand . . . doing this allows greater degrees of understanding to take place.

Answer 2

The coin analogy I do not feel is relevant in this case. Doubt is not important in faith however questioning is. Blinding following is not healthy as one cannot achieve full and deeper understanding of your faith and religion. Doubt is the beginnings of disbelief and then loss of it.

Answer 3

First, I think doubt is normal. The claims of faith are enormous and, by any reasonable standard, should kindle in us confusion, questions, uncertainties and doubts. Not that God wants to leave us there. But we have to start the faith journey by being shaken free from old ways. That process of newness happens again and again.

Second, wanting to know God is far more important than thinking of oneself as already having arrived. Faith is a journey, not a destination. There is always more.

Answer 4

Anyone who doesn't question their religious faith is controlled by it. Thought is a natural ability of the mind and if someone takes everything at face value they are at the mercy of the sources dictating life or purposes around them. Good luck for those who live in this kind of world.

Answer 5

to have faith means not to doubt.. faith is wen u totally beleive something; therefore u shudnt doubt it. what is goin to happen for us in the future is written for us as our faith in life and we cant argue or change it as well we dont even know it...its true, we shouldnt follow blindly but we shudnt doubt in what is written for us,, but doubt other things that have nothing to do with faith.. for eg, like if a child duznt lik milk and all of a sudden, his mum sees his glass empty in the morning, she would doubt as to where did the milk ago.. he might hav drank it or he might hav thrown it down the sink.. so this is the doubt that we shud have in our life..

Answer 6

Faith could have a healthy measure of doubt because it

needs belief.

When you have thought it through over many years it is

possible not to need belief because you have gone

beyond uncertainty.

Answer 7

Well, if established religions didn't understand and accept the need for doubt, wouldn't it be referred to as having "certainty" instead of having "faith"? Blind, unquestioning acceptance seems to be a contradiction to the concept of free will. It also leads to cults that ask you to drink poisoned koolaid or cut off your testicles. If you accept the basic concept that God gave you life, that also means God gave you a brain. Use it!

Answer 8

When I was Catholic, I had doubt, and I questioned and resolved it somehow and lived in a world where I somehow reconciled the observable world with faith. Eventually, I could no longer reconcile the different worlds, so I left one of them.

Without questioning, you don't grow...and it is unhealthy not to grow.

Answer 9

It is...it means u are being tested, and that is a good sign...Allah want to make u stronger, besides that from doubt comes questioning, research and more knowledge, feith should be the product of ur questioning, not a blind one

Answer 10

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see - Hebrews 11:1

You might as well ask if celibacy is an important part of sexual immorality - two sides of the same coin.


By definition, if doubt is involved - it is not faith.