Pen to Paper

I’ve been thinking about the relationship between faith and doubt lately. And what it means to know something as opposed to believing it has a high probability.

These things seem like opposites. And yet I can’t help but think that you can’t have faith without having doubt first.

Without doubt, you just have acceptance of what you perceive as facts. It’s like believing the ground is there because you can see it. Unless you consciously think there’s a good chance you’re hallucinating or mistaken, there’s no faith in that. Just acceptance.

Only by first doubting the floor’s existence can you choose to put faith in it, to act in faith.

That’s what I’ve been thinking lately, anyway.

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