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Christian Agnostic: The Doubt Jesus Requires His Followers to Have
Christian Agnostic: The Doubt Jesus Requires His Followers to Have
Christian Agnostic: The Doubt Jesus Requires His Followers to Have
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Could it be true that Jesus requires his followers to admit room for doubt in him? According to this book, yes.
Lawson writes in Christian Agnostic,

Greatness, in order to be great, must have a great adversary. Who would Luke Skywalker be without Darth Vadar? Who would Rocky be without Apollo Creed? Who would Winston Churchill be without Hitler? Would we ever have known who David was without Goliath? What would faith be without doubt?

Where maybe no other religious book does, the Bible understands that even though faith and doubt are great adversaries, faith loves doubt because faith loves the fight and knows that it could not be great without uncertainty. More than that, the Bible sees doubt as an ally because it knows that if doubt could be eliminated and true certainty attained, then faith, the resource that fuels the Bible's followers, could not exist for there can be no faith where there is no doubt.
The majority of the church, and the world at large, views faith as a resource that erases doubt and decides truth. This misconception has caused much of the Christian world, for most of its history, to embrace a method of searching for truth that is weak and lazy. This book shows that despite the church's mistaken belief about the nature of faith, the Bible understands how to search for truth with the legitimacy that only comes from having the courage to be honest about the room for doubt present wherever faith is used to believe and then being open to challenging one's own beliefs wherever that room for doubt exists.
In recent decades, millions have walked away from the church because they think the Bible lacks credibility. What they do not realize is that the Bible has credibility, but that the Christian world holds back its legitimacy, instead choosing to unintentionally make the Bible appear weak because it refuses to embrace the more honorable method of searching for truth that the book promotes. Christian Agnostic will show the world many of the Bible's strengths that the church has been unknowingly concealing.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJan 24, 2012
ISBN9781468537192
Christian Agnostic: The Doubt Jesus Requires His Followers to Have
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Dustin Lawson

At age fifteen, Dustin began working as a lion and tiger trainer at the Siberian Tiger Foundation near his home in Ohio. He worked there for eight years throughout high school and college. Instead of going to Ohio State to major in zoology and become the next Jungle Jack Hannah, Dustin went to college to become a preacher. After college, Dustin spent a year traveling North America, the Middle East, and Europe as the personal assistant to an author named Josh McDowell. That year inspired his desire to be an author. He has written nine books—five novels, three, nonfiction, and one autobiography.Eventually, Dustin decided to end his career as a preacher and join the military. Entering the military was a difficult task because, during his junior year of college, Dustin had testicular cancer. In 2010, after five years of being rejected because of his history of cancer, the military let him in. Dustin served nine years, the last six as a public affairs officer. He deployed on missions in Peru, Kosovo, and Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. He resigned as a captain. Since then, he has worked as a government speechwriter for a foreign development agency, a position he was appointed to by the White House. Dustin has degrees in religion and international politics.One of Dustin’s favorite books, 1984, opens on April 4, 1984 with Winston Smith rebelling against the totalitarian state of Ingsoc by writing down his own thoughts in a journal. Dustin was born the day before on April 3, 1984. He likes to think that on the day he was born Winston was struggling over whether or not to continue hiding that he was a freethinker or be outwardly defiant, and on Dustin’s birthday Winston made the decision that the next day he would.

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