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Do biblical heroes have doubts? Questions of faith?<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 16 describes how David, the righteous king, queries, investigates and questions the power and existence of God. But suddenly he becomes fearful lest the belief system upon which he relies will collapse in the face of doubts, questions, and faulty dogmas, whose argument is that God has abandoned this world to holy idols \u2013 according to the beliefs of those who worship them \u2013 and those idols, which rule the earth, decree who deserves punishment and who deserves mercy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

David becomes very agitated, and with a powerful spirit raises himself up to cry out in a strong voice: \u201cNo! No! God save me from these worthless thoughts!\u201d \u2013 similar to the statement \u201cAvert my eyes from seeing falsehood\u201d (Ps 119:37) \u2013 for only You offer me protection, and not the deaf-and-dumb idols. I have no interest or desire for them, nor will I continue my attempts to approach and fathom God by means of investigations, because I now recognize that I will never be able to know and to comprehend the ways of God. <\/span>\u00a0<\/b>For the righteous person shall live by his faith, and that faith lights his way.<\/span><\/p>\n

But after David has thrown off what he perceived as his detestable investigations, his emotions calmed somewhat and he began to contemplate to himself again, saying to his soul: When you investigated God, was God my master commanding only good? Perhaps not. Maybe the good that came to me was not brought about by You. Rather it was those other, powerful ones \u2013 the idols of the land.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, he declares that he will never accept or listen to those investigations that suggest that the idols are the princes who command good or evil. In fact, he curses others who suffer many sorrows and derive no benefit from their beliefs, who will soon recognize that their idols have no power to redeem them from their troubles and their sadness. Those idols he finds more disgusting than blood. Those who some perceive as \u201cprinces of the land,\u201d can never be accepted as heroes, for it is God who is his allotted share and portion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Translated and adapted by Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger, Ed.D.<\/span><\/p>\n

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