Insert Brain Here.

So, I am a reader of RELEVANT magazine and sometimes like it, sometimes not so much. In the July-August 2009 issue, there is an article titled, "Insert Soul Here." The article deals with faith and doubt and admonishes the reader to doubt and question all things, and that such actions lead to true faith in God, rather than faith in our own faith.

While I agree with some of the basic points made by David Dark, I was floored by one of the final paragraphs. Here is how it reads:

"And far from being a tradition in which doubts and questions are suppressed in favor of uncritical, blind faith, Christianity is a robust culture in which anything can be asked and everything can be said. The call to worship is a call to complete candor and radical questioning. Questioning the way things are, the way we are and wondering about the way things ought to be. As G.K. Chesterton observed, the New Testament portrays a God who, by being wholly present in the dying cry of Jesus of Nazareth, even doubted and questioned Himself. (italics and bold mine) The summons to sacred questioning-like the call to honesty, like the call to prayer, is a call to be true and to let the chips fall where they may. Like the call to authenticity, it is deeper than the call to sign off on a checklist of particular tenets or beliefs. It is also more difficult."

This paragraph implies many disturbing things about our Lord. First let's put this in context. I can only assume that Mr. Dark is referring to Christ quoting the beginning of Psalm 22 at his crucifixion, "O God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" To say that this is the Creator of the Cosmos doubting in the love and salvation of the Father is, at best a gross misunderstanding of scripture, and at worse...
To stop reading, or thinking, of this Psalm after the first line is to miss the point of our Lord. Christ is quoting this Psalm to show his fulfillment of prophecy, as well as affirm his hope in God. Reading further the Psalmist proclaims, "You who fear the Lord, praise Him. All you seed of Jacob, glorify Him; fear Him, all you seed of Israel. For He has not despised nor scorned the beggar's supplication, nor has He turned away His face from Me (God did not turn his face away from Christ at the hour of his death!); and when I cried out to Him, He heard me."
I believe that the type of statements Mr. Dark has said lead to a misrepresentation of the nature of Christ. The Church has always taught that Christ is one person with two natures!
This means He is both fully God and fully Man. The only way Christ could doubt His divinity (don't forget that he is God) is to split him into two persons. To say that his wills were split between two persons, which is what I believe Mr. Dark is implying in his thought process, whether intentional or not, is to follow the way of the those who followed Nestorius in the 5th century and denied the fourth Ecumenical Council of the Church! There is nothing new under the sun and I pray we use our brains and not go the way of Emergent nonsense! Doctrine is critical and so is the preservation of what has been taught from the beginning (1 John 2:23-25).

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy.