Disciples Fellowship

Tag: Doubts

  • Modern Doubt: Options

    In this modern era, everything can be questioned. Traditional answers have no power to convince the skeptic; we no longer collectively assume and share a coherent reality, and we are capable of doubting any proposed order to our existence. Anyone who really pursues these questions comes to recognize the possibility of meaninglessness, of nothingness beneath…

  • The Power of Doubt

    In Paul Tillich’s retelling of changing culture and dominant human anxieties since antiquity, he emphasizes that modernity introduced, for the first time in human consciousness, the self-understanding of the person as an individual. Our identity is no longer merely as part of a collective mass of humanity, of some tribe or people, but we think…

  • Dealing with Doubters

    Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.  –  Galatians 1:20 Paul is prepared for skepticism about his claims. Disbelief. Questions of his character, truthfulness, or even agenda. Though he states clearly that he is an apostle “through Jesus Christ and God the Father” he is prepared…