DECONSTRUCTION OF FAITH & DOUBT:
HOW UNCERTAINTY SAVED MY CHRISTIANITY
Let’s be honest – my faith would be different if I thought every story reported in the Bible was historically, factually and literally true. My faith would be different if I thought that the seven-days creation model was scientifically accurate, that all the prophecies found in the Scripture were either fulfilled or going to be fulfilled literally. My faith would be different if I was certain that every word of Jesus recorded in the Gospels was actually pronounced by the historical Jesus.
It would be different. But would it be better? Would it be stronger?
‘It’s a lie that faith has no foundation’ I was told at my first church, ‘real faith stands on proof and experience’. That was a nice change after cultural Catholicism, where you took dogmas ‘by faith’, which practically meant taking them without much consideration and without translating them into real life too much. Not any more: our faith was proof-based. We had shelves filled with ‘proof’:… keep reading
Hi, I’m Jakub Mymus – a Christian, who doesn’t see faith and doubt as competing opposites but treats them both as fuel powering the spiritual journey.
Often not comfortable with the evangelical culture and clear-cut dogmas, I go where my nerdiness takes me – into thinking, into researching and into seeking answers, while understanding we can only draw closer to the truth; sharing the view that God, though impossible to understand, can be approached and – on some level – known.
What ‘the word of God’ actually refers to, and how we often misunderstand it. 5-7 min. read. So, we have a recipe …
How you can know God when you give up knowing – 5 min. read My first church suffered a lot of dissonance …
Who killed Goliath and why the Bible has (at least) 2 different answers to that.
5-7 min. read about a nice, semi-honest evangelical approach to the Scripture. The girl running the class teaches the Bible. She is …
Why are there two different creation stories in the Bible and why we shouldn't try to harmonise them. 7 min. reading.
Why are Christians so allergic to Universalism and why they may be wrong about it. 6-8min. read addressing common misconceptions
‘Maybe now you’d be satisfied by a salary in thousands, but you have to set your perspective on millions!’...15min. read
Is Hitler going to heaven? The strongest arguments for Christian universalism, drawn from ‘That all shall be saved’ by David Bentley Hart.
I started with the rather fundamental idea of ‘if Christianity is true, Islam must be a lie; if it’s a lie; if there are any good or truthful elements, they are there only to lure people into it’.
Why you should be careful about testimonies shared at church, and why we need to built a different culture around sharing them. 5 min. read.
3 things in the first chapter of Genesis which make it special, and how we won't see them through the Western perspective. 6 min. reading.
It seems that God in Genesis 1 is a wee bit different for God in Genesis 2. Why? And is that bad? 5-6min. reading