“Is doubting bad?” by Kevin Rogers

February 27, 2025

Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/02/2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location
Online

Categories

• Biblical Issues
• Existence of God
• Experience

1        Is doubting bad?

Our next Reasonable Faith Adelaide (RFA) meeting for 2025 will be on “Is doubting bad?” by Kevin Rogers.  This meeting will start at 7 pm, on Thursday, the 27^th February. You can participate in RFA meetings via ZOOM. Please click on the following link to join the meeting:

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Even though I was brought up in a non-Christian home, I always believed in God, until I became a Christian. I was converted at an evangelistic meeting at my church when I was 14 and then suddenly, I began to have doubts. I was very keen on science subjects at school and the supernatural seemed incompatible. Questions arose, such as

• Does God exist?
• Did miracles really occur?
• Were the stories of Jesus made up?
• Can I experience God?

I still wanted to believe and so I brought a piece of paper along to Sunday School on which I had written 14 arguments for the existence of God. I wish that I had kept it. Thus started a long journey of dealing with doubt. My environment at home, school and university seemed hostile to Christianity and my beliefs were challenged.

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) (1601)

Unresolved doubt and unbelief are major factors in the decline of the Christian demographic within Australian society. Unbelief is an inhibitor that prevents people becoming Christians and also contributes to people drifting away. Despite this, apologetics is often not given a high priority within our churches.

In this coming meeting I will be addressing the question, “Is doubting bad?” In particular, I will cover:

• If I doubt, will this disqualify me from receiving wisdom from God? (James 1:6-7)
• Will God answer my prayers?
• Will adhering to Christian values be a waste of my life?
• How should we treat others who doubt?
• What is the difference between doubt and unbelief?
• What causes unbelief?
• What should we do about doubt both for ourselves and others?

Dr Kevin Rogers

Dr Kevin Rogers is the director of Reasonable Faith Adelaide. After a 40-year engineering career, he was a Research Fellow and lecturer with the University of South Australia but is now mainly retired, but still with plenty to do.