What made you open this thread? Concern for someone who MIGHT be "wavering"? Or do you IDENTIFY with the idea of "wavering"?
Are you having doubts?
If you think that NO Christian has doubts, you're wrong. Eveyone does. There are times when the most "Spirit-filled godly evangelist" awakens wondering, "Is it all real?"
In the book, "A Celebration of Discipline" (Richard Foster), under "Solitude" is a topic "dark night of the soul". It is a time of spiritual dryness; Scripture does not excite, church does not attract; God feels distant. He says, "rather than to be FEARED, it is to be WELCOMED. It brings a sense of quiet to one's soul; a time to sit in silence, and reflect. A time to wait on God.
Each of us comes to God in our own way; for me, my scientific mind had to understand the physics, the science. I assure you Christianity IS scientific, magnitudes more than atheistic Humanism. History supports us; there has never been an archeological conflict with Scripture. Jesus WAS. Jesus SPOKE certain things; and in a legal sense, we can BELIEVE that what Scripture records, is ACCURATE.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the FACTS, that the Bible makes certain bold assertions; WAS there an "Ark"? Apparently, there was. WAS there a place called Jerico? Fully documented and proven. WAS there a man called "Jesus"? According to all the records and history we have, YES. Scripture itself presents a spectacular credibility; 25,000 copies surviving time, many datable to within 50 years of Christ. Do you believe in George Washington? Why? You have NO different evidence fhat HE existed, than you do Jesus. What about Moses? Shakespeer?
In a legal sense, what is recorded of Jesus' words, is accurate. The "testimony of the witnesses", but at the time OF the writing, and the next few years. Had it NOT been credible, it would have been OVERTURNED. Jesus said He was God; and He said He was the only way. Per C.S.Lewis, Jesus either WAS what he said, or was NOT --- and was a LIAR (knew He wasn't and lied), or was not and was a LUNATIC (didn't know He wasn't God).
Was Jesus raised from the dead? Scripture said that He appeared to THOUSANDS. There is no way such an assertion would have survived, had it not happened. The Disciples were, basically, cowards. There is no motivation for them to have pulled off the "greatest con of all time" --- pretending Jesus was resurrected. Something HAPPENED to them --- suddenly they had TONS of courage.
And that perspective is ONLY compatible with a "true, risen Savior".
Do you doubt? Welcome to being Human. What do you DO with your doubting? Doubt can either RUIN us (if allowed to grow), or it can STRENGTH us --- as it drives us to our knees before Him. What do you do about your doubting? What do you do about your CHRISTIANITY?
What is Christianity? What does it mean to be saved? What ONE WORD completely describes "salvation", "born-again", "Christian", everything that Jesus was about? Imagine putting the ENTIRE BIBLE into a saucepan, turning the unit up on "HIGH", and boiling it and boiling it all the way down to ONE WORD. Do you know what that word is?
Most don't....
Are you having doubts?
If you think that NO Christian has doubts, you're wrong. Eveyone does. There are times when the most "Spirit-filled godly evangelist" awakens wondering, "Is it all real?"
In the book, "A Celebration of Discipline" (Richard Foster), under "Solitude" is a topic "dark night of the soul". It is a time of spiritual dryness; Scripture does not excite, church does not attract; God feels distant. He says, "rather than to be FEARED, it is to be WELCOMED. It brings a sense of quiet to one's soul; a time to sit in silence, and reflect. A time to wait on God.
Each of us comes to God in our own way; for me, my scientific mind had to understand the physics, the science. I assure you Christianity IS scientific, magnitudes more than atheistic Humanism. History supports us; there has never been an archeological conflict with Scripture. Jesus WAS. Jesus SPOKE certain things; and in a legal sense, we can BELIEVE that what Scripture records, is ACCURATE.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the FACTS, that the Bible makes certain bold assertions; WAS there an "Ark"? Apparently, there was. WAS there a place called Jerico? Fully documented and proven. WAS there a man called "Jesus"? According to all the records and history we have, YES. Scripture itself presents a spectacular credibility; 25,000 copies surviving time, many datable to within 50 years of Christ. Do you believe in George Washington? Why? You have NO different evidence fhat HE existed, than you do Jesus. What about Moses? Shakespeer?
In a legal sense, what is recorded of Jesus' words, is accurate. The "testimony of the witnesses", but at the time OF the writing, and the next few years. Had it NOT been credible, it would have been OVERTURNED. Jesus said He was God; and He said He was the only way. Per C.S.Lewis, Jesus either WAS what he said, or was NOT --- and was a LIAR (knew He wasn't and lied), or was not and was a LUNATIC (didn't know He wasn't God).
Was Jesus raised from the dead? Scripture said that He appeared to THOUSANDS. There is no way such an assertion would have survived, had it not happened. The Disciples were, basically, cowards. There is no motivation for them to have pulled off the "greatest con of all time" --- pretending Jesus was resurrected. Something HAPPENED to them --- suddenly they had TONS of courage.
And that perspective is ONLY compatible with a "true, risen Savior".
Do you doubt? Welcome to being Human. What do you DO with your doubting? Doubt can either RUIN us (if allowed to grow), or it can STRENGTH us --- as it drives us to our knees before Him. What do you do about your doubting? What do you do about your CHRISTIANITY?
What is Christianity? What does it mean to be saved? What ONE WORD completely describes "salvation", "born-again", "Christian", everything that Jesus was about? Imagine putting the ENTIRE BIBLE into a saucepan, turning the unit up on "HIGH", and boiling it and boiling it all the way down to ONE WORD. Do you know what that word is?
Most don't....
