To be a doubting Thomas is to be human

Well, this I must be super human!

Yesterday I was listening to the Easter message on Revolution Church NYC. Toward the end of the message Jay said, “To be a doubting Thomas, is to be human.” I was very relieved to finally hear someone say those words. I find as more time goes on I feel like I doubt more and more what is told me, at first I thought I was just loosing my faith completely, but now I’m not so sure. I feel if I had lost my faith completly I would stop going to church no matter who called me, I wouldn’t think about things like Heaven, and heck I wouldn’t be looking around for information about homosexuality and the Christian religion.

Last semester in my Lifespan Human Development class we learned about a concept that you can use to judge any part of your life. There is a formal name for it, it is a box and there are four different categories. The general concept is you are most committed to a certain idea once you have thoroughly thought out and processed any idea you cling to. If you have not questioned you idea then you will be easily swayed. As I was sitting in class listening to my professor my heart started beating really quickly for two reasons. First, I knew I hadn’t fully questioned everything that I currently believed in my faith also because I was picking up on Gaydar from her and I wasn’t ready to fess up to those feelings yet.

I am now in the process of thinking about my faith and I no longer believe that we have to follow everything in the Bible. Not that we shouldn’t follow it, but we don’t have to. I believe this for a couple of reasons, most of the books in the NT are addressed specifically different groups of people; Timothy, Ephesians, ect.. I wonder if Timothy followed the things written in Acts. I think it is a good idea to follow those things, but we were not commanded too.

What do you all think?