{"id":417,"date":"2008-03-20T08:28:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2008-03-20T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T12:28:22","slug":"joe-carter-on-doubt-faith-and-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/joe-carter-on-doubt-faith-and-certainty","title":{"rendered":"Joe Carter on Doubt, Faith, and Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost has an excellent post today<\/a> on being certain about your faith.<\/p>\n

…while I may embrace and defend my opinions with firmness, it is a humble form of certitude<\/a> in which I have to acknowledge that there is a statistical likelihood — whether trivial or significant — that I could be wrong. Not so, however, when it comes to matters of faith. I don’t doubt that God exists or that the Bible is his Word. I don’t doubt that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he died and was buried, or that he rose again after three days in the tomb. I don’t doubt that he died for me<\/i>, a truly wretched sinner, or that I will spend eternity in His presence. I would find it easier to doubt my own existence than to doubt the Nicene Creed. Maybe I’m delusional (though I doubt that<\/i>) but I have few doubts about my faith. My certitude is admittedly personal. I believe I have justification and warrant for my beliefs and that if pressed, I could attempt to provide proof and evidence for these claims. The level of “proof” I could give, though, would not provide the same level of certitude for you that I find sufficient for me. Proof is rather limited in that regard. I couldn’t prove that Joe Carter exists much less prove that he likes the color blue, that he kissed Christie Cozart in the 7th grade, or that he hates referring to himself in the third person. While I can’t prove those things beyond a shadow of a doubt, I don’t doubt them at all. Similarly, my certainty in my faith isn’t based on what I can prove to other people or even, for that matter, what I can prove to myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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