At this time, I thought I would repost this!
Zechariah’s Response
In Luke 1:18, Zechariah asks Gabriel, “How will I know that this is so?” A good faithful person can have their doubts about God. What is the cause of our doubt?
Gabriel Appears Before Zechariah In most cases I think doubt is caused by believing that things can never be other than they are, especially as we have always experienced them. Just being human in a worldly society conditions us to take what we see, hear and touch in the three dimensional world as more “real” than what we hold as an ideal or a miracle that we have heard about—especially if we feel buried under the constraining weight of that reality. Zechariah, based on his own experience, probably thought as we think that old women can’t have children because he personally didn’t know any old women who did. Yet what I find interesting is that 1) he…
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Fran Kramer 