Review: Room for Doubt

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Room for Doubt: How Uncertainty Can Deepen Your Faith

By Ben Young (David C. Cook Publishers)

Room for Doubt 150Ben Young, teaching pastor at Second Baptist Church in Houston and an adjunct professor at Houston Theological Seminary, makes the case there is room for doubt in our faith relationship with God. He examines the way both doubt and faith are evidenced in Psalm 24, beginning with “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” in the first verse and transitioning to the testimony of the fourth and fifth verses: “In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them. They cried out to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.”

Then Young brings out other doubters in scripture, such as John the Baptist, who in prison questioned if Jesus really was the long-awaited Messiah, and the Apostle Thomas, who said he would believe in Christ’s resurrection only if he could touch his nail-pierced hands and his spear-pierced side. Young also notes church leaders who openly doubted, citing the examples of Mother Theresa, Martin Luther, C.S. Lewis and Lee Strobel, among many others.

“Faith is something you do,” Young asserts, and therefore it becomes a real-life experience. He contends doubt makes a person “a better student of life.”

Young assures us we are not alone in our doubt. His book also tells us what men throughout history thought about God and the Bible.

The book concludes with questions for small-group discussion or Bible study classes, categorized by chapter and a wonderful bibliography categorized in the same manner.

Any Christian who is interested in apologetics will appreciate this book, and so will any “doubting” Christian.

Skip Holman, minister of discipleship


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