I am certain that the title of this thread is not a question |
From he OP: “What were you taught about religious doubt?” ? |
I don't have proof for a lot of things that I expect to happen if I do certain things -- e.g., stop the car by putting on the brakes. I've been told that it will happen and experience tells me it will happen. I have the brakes checked regularly by a mechanic to make sure they continue working, because if they don't, I'll have an accident. My faith is based on mechanical proof that brakes work. You can't say that about religion. |
Why do you ask questions when you aren’t interested in the answers? Why don’t you answer questions when you ask others to answer yours? |
I learned that doubt is good because Jesus doubted his father when he went into the garden and did not want to be crucified.
Also learned that the Catholic religion and the Catholic Church are two different things. I learned that it is my obligation to protect my Catholic religion from the Catholic Church. |
Why did Jesus doubt his father when they are supposed to be one and the same, as in the holy trinity? |
He was the human part of the trinity. |
Have you ever laying in bed when your alarm goes off and say to yourself you need to get up you need to get up. Have you ever said to yourself do not eat the whole piece of cake? Who’s talking? who are you talking to? |
What part of the Trinity is the Holy Ghost? |
It is mine, too. Good to meet you fellow traveler! |
Unsurprising |
That doubts are the flip side of faith. They coexist. However, just as there is no substitute for hard work, there is no substitute for disciplined spiritual practice. You can have both faith and doubts that you are capable of creating good art but there is no substitute for getting into your creative zone and making art that communicates feelings/ places/ moments in time in ways that words can’t express. Faith and doubts are the co-joined twins inside one’s head that is always chattering away -/ but religious practices (prayer/ worship/ meditation/ sacred music need to be lived). Religious practices represent different forms of knowledge and experience to both faith and doubts. |
This is not in the title of the thread. |
Some of us can read beyond the titles. Stop being so pedantic. DP. |
Only if you open the thread and start reading. |