What is the difference between doubt and unbelief

Robert Jeffress. The Difference between Doubt and Unbelief. Posted at h in by A Webmaster 0 Comments. Enter Email Confirm Email. Select one Next Sunday, November 21 our First Dallas children and student choirs will be singing in worship at 11am! CSN International. American Family Radio Network.

Bott Radio Network. Salem Communications. Delmarva Educational Association. Rockdale Community Broadcasting Inc. Silverdove Broadcasting, Inc. The Life FM. Thy Word Network. King of Kings Radio. There may be some people who feel their problem is doubt, when actually the real problem is their unbelief. The issue is not that they doubt their faith, but that they do not have a faith to doubt.

They need to believe the things that God has revealed, and act upon them:. God calls on you to repent from a self-centered life, and he offers you mercy, pardon, and forgiveness through his Son, Jesus.

Paul moved from unbelief to faith as God worked a miracle in his life. God will give you that same gift if you will ask him. You can see the difference in the story of a married couple — Job and his wife — who experienced a great family tragedy. In one day, they lost their business, wealth, property, and every one of their seven children died, as a house where they were holding a party collapsed on them. Their response to suffering was the most revealing thing about them, and it will be one of the most revealing things about us.

We know that he had children later, and so it may be that God worked a miracle in her soul just like the miracle in the Apostle Paul. This article originally appeared on UnlockingTheBible. Used with permission. Shoebox Collection Week is Here! We expect prophecies, moves of the Spirit, and solid teaching.

A fake prophet, false teacher, and iffy Christian will call it unbelief, and call our devotion into question. Works too well, too often. Way too many Christians never admit our doubts, never publicly ask questions, keep our mouths shut, and meekly allow ourselves to be led astray.

Every legalistic church, every child-molesting pastor, every fool who teaches something stupid and ridiculous and embarrasses Christianity with it, has benefited by the fact Christians refuse to doubt.

We refuse to engage our brains, and apply any critical thinking. It makes us look like idiots. But whenever we refuse to ask questions, we are idiots.

Every Christian should doubt. RSS feed for comments on this post. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Mission Statement : Christianity is a melting-pot of devotional and Bible study content from across the widest range of Christian blogs and websites.

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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. Start today! It was to unbelief. Our second guesses, or our unbelief. Matthew Mark 9. How long am I gonna be with you? Bring the boy to me. The spirit saw Jesus and immediately pitched a fit. Falling on the ground, the boy rolled and foamed. Have compassion on us!