Dealing with Doubt, Chapter 2

Continuing my review of the online book, Dealing with Doubt. This chapter deals with the different types of doubt a person can have. Each type of doubt has a different remedy. Here are the types the author outlines:

• Factual doubt: concerned with the evidential foundation for belief
• factual foundations
• sidetracked by pseudo problems
• questioning intellect
• system confusion   
• Emotional doubt: concerned with one's feelings and frequently involves more subjective responses
• psychological causes
• medical causes
• faulty view of God
• childhood problems
• old wounds
• judging by feelings
• need for attention
• lack of sleep
• peer pressure
• identifying with fiction
• Christian hypocrisy
• forgiven sin
• anxiety about the future
• judgment and Hell
• Volitional doubt: concerned with one's will and choices
• weak faith
• immature faith
• lack of growth
• self-sufficiency
• repentance
• difficulty of application

Something I need to keep in mind throughout my study is that "the testimony of the New Testament is that the healing of an individual's problems is performed by God and not by the person." I deal mostly with the factual doubts but also some of the others overlap for me from time to time.