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	<description><![CDATA[<div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">There&#39;s this, &quot;doubt filter&quot; that we have as humans. However, one has to be careful</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">not to set the threshold too high! LOL! In his over 3 years of face-to-face</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">association with Jesus, the Apostle Thomas made good use of his doubt filter and</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">the Master [Jesus] appreciated that about him. A lot of people do not know this...</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">&quot;Thomas the doubter&quot; should be taken in good stride.&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: rgb(20, 25, 35);">&ldquo;</span>Thomas was the eighth apostle, and he was chosen by Philip. In later times he</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>has become known as &ldquo;doubting Thomas,&rdquo; but his fellow apostles hardly looked</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>upon him as a chronic doubter. True, his was a logical, skeptical type of mind, but</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>he had a form of courageous loyalty which forbade those who knew him intimately</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>to regard him as a trifling skeptic.&rdquo; - Urantia Book 139:8.1</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>&ldquo;Jesus enjoyed Thomas very much and had many long, personal talks with him.</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>His presence among the apostles was a great comfort to all honest doubters and</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>encouraged many troubled minds to come into the kingdom, even if they could not</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>wholly understand everything about the spiritual and philosophic phases of the</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>teachings of Jesus. Thomas&rsquo;s membership in the twelve was a standing declaration</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>that Jesus loved even honest doubters.&rdquo; - Urantia Book 139:8</i><br />&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The doubt filter has its place. It helps us to apply caution and patience. You do not</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">have to be in a hurry to accepting anything or rejecting anything. You take your</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">time... Do your homework. Ask questions. Honestly seek for answers...</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Doubt is a must. We are confronted with it at different times, in one area of life or</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">the other. An important question is, &quot;What do we do when faced with doubt?&quot; It is</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">important to use that &quot;doubt experience&quot; as an opportunity to pray, to meditate,</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">to investigate, to study, to learn, and to grow! When confronted with doubt, we</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">shouldn&#39;t grow cold feet... We should tackle the challenge head on! And with open</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">hearts to God&rsquo;s truth and divine insight, our doubts would be clarified. Doubts will</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">give way to faith - unshakeable faith. Our &ldquo;faith&rdquo; would then grow and evolve and</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">become actual, factual reality.</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">And Jesus puts it quite nicely, &quot;There is but one struggle for those who enter the</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">kingdom, and that is to fight the good fight of faith. The believer has only one</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">battle, and that is against doubt - unbelief.&quot;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">~ Brother Karo Kanye Akamune</div><div style="font-style: normal; color: rgb(20, 25, 35); font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>
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