An Open Letter to Those Facing Doubts

Various Scriptures

by Mike Mayfield

Compassion for Doubters
Mark 9:17-29

“I believe; help my unbelief!”

Faith and Science

Sexuality and Marriage
 Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)
26  Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:24 (ESV)
24  Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Mark 2:19-20 (ESV)
19  And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
20  The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

John 3:29-30 (ESV)
29  The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete.
30  He must increase, but I must decrease.”

Other Religions
1 Peter 3:15 (ESV)
15  but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Faith and Doubt

Our Faith May Be Weak, but Our Savior is Strong
Matthew 6:30 (ESV)
30  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Matthew 14:28 (ESV)
28  And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”

Matthew 14:30-31 (ESV)
30  But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”
31  Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 16:24-25 (ESV)
24  Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25  For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

John 6:66-69 (ESV)
66  After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
67  So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”
68  Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
69  and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”