{"id":21867,"date":"2021-02-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/?p=21867"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:28:21","slug":"doubt-is-merely-faith-that-colors-outside-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/doubt-is-merely-faith-that-colors-outside-the-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubt is merely faith that colors outside the lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Rev. Paul Graves<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap dropcapp3\">I recently had an unexpected conversation with an acquaintance who might slip easily into the clich\u00e9-coat: \u201cOften wrong, but never in doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish now that I had asked him \u201cWhy is it important for you to never be in doubt?\u201d A variation on that? \u201cWhy is it important for you to always be certain you\u2019re right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us lean on our certainty as a crutch to hold us up, afraid that to doubt what we believe will cause our entire belief system to crash like a house of cards. For some people, I suspect their collection of beliefs does resemble a fragile house of cards. In this circumstance, doubt is indeed a kind of threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a much healthier kind of doubt I suggest you consider. It asks \u201cwhy?\u201d as a door-opener to new information, new hopes and visions. On Thursday, the Perseverance rover was lowered onto Mars after a seven-month voyage. I can\u2019t imagine the number of \u201cwhy?\u201d questions that were asked by countless people that resulted in that successful landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No doubt there were doubters about that mission. (Yes, I\u2019m aware of the verbal irony in that sentence.) But the vision-expanding doubters carried the day. Eventually, I suspect our world will be better for them pushing beyond traditional astrophysics theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doubt I urge us to embrace colors outside the lines of a traditional belief system \u2013 scientific, religious, political, economic, you-name-it. This doubt is willing to trust (have faith) in the realization that we don\u2019t have all the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why it\u2019s important to consider this truth-piece: Doubt is so often faith that colors outside the lines!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s consider that in the context of religious faith. As I\u2019ve said before, I speak only from my experience in the Christian tradition. I know other traditions deal with this doubt dynamic also, but I am most familiar with my Christian experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his just-published book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/53138160-faith-after-doubt\">Faith After Doubt<\/a>,\u201d Brian McLaren made this affirmation: \u201cA verse I had memorized in my childhood came to mind: \u2018Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understandings\u2019 (Proverbs 3:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, it dawned on me: there\u2019s a difference between doubting God and doubting my understanding of God, just as there\u2019s a difference between trusting God and trusting my understanding of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was trained as a child to always color inside the lines. As I grew, I slowly learned the world didn\u2019t collapse if my red or green ended up outside the lines. As a man who seeks more and more truth of \u201cwhat is,\u201d I continue to learn that the lines can too easily straightjacket my curiosity, my imagination and my faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m more willing to have faith (trust) that my belief that God is a certain way, is inevitably too small a belief. My willingness to doubt is driven by my desire to learn more about the God who is infinitely greater than my imagination can explore on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u201cWhen the Heart Waits,\u201d Sue Monk Kidd speaks wisely: \u201cCreativity flourishes not in certainty but in questions. Growth germinates not in tent dwelling but in upheaval.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dwelling metaphor differs from Ms. Kidd\u2019s, but its truth-piece works. I use the traditional religious belief system of my life as a floor to stand on, but not the ceiling and walls of a room much too small for me to discover God. I need to splash color well beyond the confines of that room. Spiritual growth can be messy at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s all good! I have no doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Rev. Paul Graves<\/strong>&nbsp;serves as the chair for the Council on Older Adult Ministries for the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist Church.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest blog post. Rev. 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