Doubt can stimulate you to keep thinking and asking questions. Look in the scriptures, and see how much Jesus did by asking questions. Our culture teaches us to think that a person who doubts is essentially smarter than a person who believes. So I tell people, "If you're going to be a doubter, you need to believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts as well as to doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts." This is how knowledge grows. We keep this process going in conversations with others, listening to good speakers, inquiry of various kinds, and reading books on issues of concern. This can be time consuming, so we do these things in fellowship and share what we are learning. That's why it is so important that our fellowship be open and that people, especially young people, feel encouraged to admit and talk about their doubts; they are a good thing to talk about.
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