Skeptics & Disciples

Skeptics & DisciplesLuke 7John the Baptist had questions!Luke 7:18-23“Be not faithless; for, if we are faithless, we are Christless and graceless, hopeless and joyless; let us therefore say, Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief.” —  Matthew HenryThe opposite of faith is not doubt but unbelief!Faith is not the absence of doubt but the overcoming of doubt.Doubt your doubts, they are based on another faith.Their awful unbelief, That makes them doubt: Comes from their nature, Bringing doubt about.“There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.” Alfred Lloyd Tennyson Wisdom is vindicated by all her children. Luke 7:35Luke 7:24-35“What did you go out into the wilderness to see?”They accused John of being a zealous and religious fanatic.They accused Jesus of being licentious and sinful hypocrite3 Barriers to FaithIgnoranceCynicismEmpiricism