3. we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
2 Peter 1:16
“We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but
we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”

4. Using the Gospels and 1 Corinthians 15: 3-8 as guides;
it is clear that Jesus made anywhere from 9 to 11 “appearances”
to people after being resurrected from
the dead over
a period of 40 days.

5. is staggering. To put it into perspective,
“The amount of testimony and corroboration of Jesus' post-Resurrection appearances
is staggering.  To put it into perspective,
if you were to call each one of the witnesses
to a court of law to be cross-examined for
just 15 minutes each, and you went around
the clock without a break, it would take you from breakfast on Monday until dinner
on Friday to hear them all.  After listening to 129 straight hours of eyewitness testimony, who could possibly walk away unconvinced?“
- Lee Strobel in “The Case For Christ”

6. Matthew 28: 16-17 16 “Then the eleven disciples
left for Galilee, going to the mountain
where Jesus had told them to go.
17 When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!”

7. used in the New Testament (diakrino).
Distazo
"to stand in two ways“, “wavering”, “hesitant”, "uncertain which way to take" Used in Matt. 14:31 & Matt. 28:17,
 referring to believers whose faith is small. This is not the typical word for doubt
used in the New Testament (diakrino).

8. he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
Matthew 14: 29-31
29 “…Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind,
he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
31 Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?”

9. "When you believe, you are
in one mind and accept something as true. Unbelief
is to be of one mind and
reject that something is true. To doubt is to waver between the two, or as the Chinese say, ‘Doubt is standing in two boats, with one foot in each.’“
- Os Guiness

10. but understands it & loves us through it.
As Jude 1:22 states, we should have mercy on each other in times of doubt, just as God does…yet still spur each other further on towards a deeper faith in Him; just as He always encourages “doubters.”
God rebukes doubt in us,
but understands it & loves us through it.

11. John 20:27 Then [Jesus] said to Thomas, “Put your finger here;
See my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side.
Stop doubting
and believe.”