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Doubt (of the faithful)

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. (Matthew 28:16-17)

 Now the Greek word in this passage that is translated as doubt is the verb διστάζω distazo, which means literally two-fold or double stance. To be caught between two positions, to vacillate.

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DOUBT (of John the Baptist)

If faith is commitment before knowledge, then doubt is inevitable.  The most famous of doubters is Thomas the twin, one of Jesus’s disciples, but John the Baptist also came to doubt Jesus as the Christ.  How given his own anointing could he doubt?  In this post, I examine, doubt, where it arises and how it is part of faith.

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