{"id":2851,"date":"2010-09-10T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/bob-cargill-on-doubt\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T09:17:00","slug":"bob-cargill-on-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/bob-cargill-on-doubt.html","title":{"rendered":"Bob Cargill on Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Bob Cargill, fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/bobcargill.com\/about.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scholar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/robertcargill.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">biblioblogger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2010\/09\/robert-cargill-skeptic-sanctuary.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">discusses doubt in relation to his own Christian<\/a> faith and faith in general. And he even quotes from me in the process! This is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2010\/09\/robert-cargill-skeptic-sanctuary.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">a guest post, \u201cThe Skeptic in the Sanctuary,\u201d on Jason Boyett\u2019s blog \u201cO Me Of Little Faith\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on Beliefnet.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample: \u201cChristians must have the faith to doubt and ask the hard questions. If God is who the Bible claims he is, he can stand a few pointed questions. True faith is the confidence that God can survive human reasoning; for what God worth worshipping cannot withstand a few logical arguments?\u2026Those who refrain from asking the penetrating questions and who teach their children to do likewise are not exhibiting faith; rather, they are betraying their glaring doubt that God and their tenuous system of beliefs can survive simple inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4241144214358857259?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Cargill, fellow scholar and biblioblogger, discusses doubt in relation to his own Christian faith and faith in general. And he even quotes from me in the process! 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