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Facing Doubt: A Review
...have, creation and miracles are at the top of that list. By this point Bruinsma has piled doubt upon doubt, and if the reader was not in doubt before reading the book, she probably is now. Bruinsma rightfully asks ‘What do we do with all this doubt?’ (p 80). Before...
Faith is Not ....
...who doubts, but does not waver. After all, even as he doubts he is still asking Jesus for help. He stayed and argued with the disciples until Jesus returned. The father doubted, but he brought those doubts to Jesus. The problem is not doubt. Faith is not the absence of...
"On The Margins": Reinder Bruinsma’s Facing Doubt
...recreate us, as He (supposedly) did when He created us the first time? And, if not, and He does resurrect us “in the twinkling of an eye,” (1 Corinthians 15:52) then why didn’t He do it like that the first go around? Facing Doubt, however, gives the impression that Bruinsma...
In Praise of Difficult Questions
...https://frankpowell.me/7-reasons-doubt-healthy-unhealthy-terrible-thing-pursue [2] Hank Davis, “Why A Little Doubt Is Good for You,” Psychology Today, September 27, 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caveman-logic/201609/why-little-doubt-is-good-you [3] Glenn Eyrie, “How to be More Like Jesus In Asking Questions,” The Apprentice Approach, https://gleneyrie.org/blog-027-how-to-be-more-like-jesus-in-asking-questions/ [4] Brandon Andress, “The Benefit of Doubt In Christian Faith,” Christian Week, February 28, 2017, https://www.christianweek.org/benefit-doubt-christian-faith/...
Reinder Bruinsma: “As Long as the Shepherd Is the Same, It Does not Matter That the Sheep Are Not Clones”
... See also the constrasting Spectrum reviews of Reinder Bruinsma's Facing Doubt written by Tom de Bruin and Clifford Goldstein. Aage Rendalen is a retired foreign language teacher who has served the Richmond Public School system in Virginia and is a frequent participant in conversations on SpectrumMagazine.org. If you respond to this article, please:...
A Time For Uncertainty: A Review of "Doubt" - 2008
Doubt and certainty. These two have been at war with each other as long as humans have been discussing religion and faith. Many Christians see doubt as the enemy of belief and faith and do everything they can to eradicate it. Someone once wrote that “doubt digs the grave of...
Doubting Thomas and I
...the anatomy of faith. She believes and she doubts. In my view, Doubting Thomas gets a bad rap for doubting, for wanting to see the risen Lord with his own eyes to verify His resurrection. In a church that thrives on belief conformity, any person asking probing questions or expressing...
Where the Church Does Its Thinking?
...on his people. (Exodus 32:9–14, NRSV) On balance, we see God responding to doubters in a variety of ways. In the case of Abraham at Sodom and Moses at Mt. Sinai, the doubters won through. Sometimes there was a temporary judgment for doubting (Zechariah), or a gentle rebuke (Thomas, Nicodemus)....
The Road through the Void
...the most beautiful and perplexing ironies of life is that there is a type of faith that is filled with fire and devotion yet also contains a heavy dose of doubt. Surprisingly, people who carry this strange concoction of doubt-faith within their souls have come to see their doubt as...
Devotional Doubt
...believers and doubters simultaneously is liberating. We’ve recognized that as much as we doubt we also believe, and that our belief is never wholly undermined by our doubt. We see doubt as the handmaiden of faith, and while we may not always conclude matters from week to week, we know...
Religious Freedom: Some Historical Perspectives and Present Applications
...of Beliefs’, pp. 173-188. 57 The document is found on the official website of the Adventist World Church: https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/documents/article/go/-/methods-of-bible-study/ 58 See also my most recent book: Facing Doubt: A Book for Adventist Believers ‘on the Margins’ (London, UK: Flankó Press, 2016), pp. 151-172. 59 http://www.notable-quotes.com/f/freedom_quotes.html#EO7SMl0qRmgotYBo.99. Reinder Bruinsma is a native of the...
A History of Adventist Lifestyles
...Reinder Bruinsma, “Adventist Identity in a Postmodern World,” Spectrum 41, no. 2 (Spring 2013):32-43. Bruinsma, a retired union president and division executive secretary from Europe, argues in favor of adopting contemporary music and drama in informal celebration worship services and allowing members to pick and choose the doctrines that meet...
A Great Opportunity
...does not ask what the result of that doubt was. Now it is certainly true that the doubt expressed by some of the respondents may have led them to forsake God and religion. However, it is just as likely that some who doubted God’s existence found their faith strengthened by...
A Master Teacher Reaches Out to Doubters
...may…involve less unbelief than the smallest yielding to doubt of His goodness. I say yielding; for a person may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things...
The Search for Our Roots
...me inevitably also think of my own roots. A number of years ago a church member who shares my surname told me she believed that we were related. I doubted this. Bruinsma may not be as common as Smith or Johnson, but the name is not so rare that all...
A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching: Chapter 42a — The “Third Thing”
...yet. I don’t want to go so far as to say that doubt is “good,” but I believe that we need to allow our doubts to flourish in order to have a vibrant faith. Please don’t misunderstand me. This is not about encouraging our doubts and reacting to them, becoming...
Nathan Brown Confronting Atheism
...might it also be, in some sense, a virtue? Answer: In doubt are the seeds of both change and growth. Questions are often more useful than rote answers. But we need to find healthy ways to be honest about our doubts, at the same time as keeping these doubts in...
Making Idols of Our Beliefs
...against any and all” who may bring doubts about the Bible. But, don’t we all experience doubt every now and then? Doubt is just a question that hasn’t been answered yet. When we neglect our doubts and run away in fear, we give them power over us and we end...
I Have a Future: Christ’s Resurrection and Mine — Book Review
...that he would have full insight only after actual resurrection, and said: “So then, encourage one another with these words.” These comforting words could also apply to Reinder Bruinsma’s book I Have a Future. I Have a Future by Reinder Bruinsma is available in paperback from the Adventist...