Dealing with Doubt, Chapter 1

I found an interesting online book called Dealing with Doubt by Gary R. Habermas (http://www.garyhabermas.com/books/dealing_with_doubt/dealing_with_doubt.htm). This post will include what I took away from Chapter 1 - Introduction: Some Crucial Groundwork.

• "I will define doubt more specifically as a lack of certainty concerning the teachings of Christianity or one's personal relation to them."
• C.S. Lewis: "Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable; but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."
• Mark Littleton: "Doubt hangs its hat on all Christians. None can honestly say they've escaped it."
• John Guest holds that all Christians were once agnostic in that they moved from unbelief to belief. Some Christians remain in a semi-agnostic condition even after salvation.
• Stephen Board thinks that there may at least be some truth to the saying that unless a person has never doubted, he has never truly believed.
• It is true that doubt may progress to where it may challenge one's very faith, but the failure to believe is unbelief or disbelief, not doubt.
• Littleton: "But doubt is not the opposite of faith . . . . doubt suggests that there is a lack of faith somewhere, but a person can doubt and still have a perfectly sound trust in God. Doubt is rather a state of uncertainty, a spiritual fork in our road."
• Even John the Baptist questioned Jesus if he was the Messiah. Jesus did not rebuke him for this. (Matt. 11:1-11; Lk. 7:18-30)
• Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus. (Jn. 20:24-29)