Also, how did you resolve the doubt or doubts in question?
This question is aimed specifically at persons who currently are adherents to a specific, named faith. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, et cetera. Atheists, agnostics, & other skeptics have teh right to post in whatever thread they choose, but the question isn’t aimed at them.
I’m a Christian. Like most Christians, I’ve had doubts about many facets of my religion, all the way up do “does this God guy really even exist at all”?
How I resolved them? the only way to resolve a question of faith: Faith.
I was raised in a mostly non-religious household, but one that ascribed to “basic Judeo-Christian values”. I went to the local Catholic school because my parents didn’t care for the local public school, and while there I decided I wanted to be Catholic like all of my friends.
I was a good little Catholic boy right through elementary school ind into High School (Christian Brothers), where they offered a Comparative Religions course. That’s when I started to question pretty much everything. For a while, throughout high school and college, I think I was probably an agnostic, though I don’t know if I would have called myself that at the time. I was pretty sure that ‘all this’ didn’t happen just by pure chance, but I wasn’t sure how it all came to be. After examining quite a few options from around the world and elsewhere, I eventually came back to Christianity.
I figured that there must be ‘an answer’, and that’s the one that made the most sense to me. Do I believe that every word in the Bible is the direct, unerring, literal word of God? Not by a long-shot (though perhaps if I learned Ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic it would all become clear). But I choose to believe because it comforts me. I don’t care that it’s not ‘logical’; if it were logical then it wouldn’t be ‘faith’.
I don’t think that my religion (or any other) has all of the answers. And that doesn’t bother me, because I don’t think religion is supposed to supply answers; that’s what we have science for. But for those questions to which there are no answers, I have faith.
Various aspects of “the problem of evil” - child molesting, the Holocaust, the corruption & crimes of Christian institutions & persons throughout the millenia, natural disasters that take out entire swaths of people at a time.
How do I resolve it?
I can’t buy into “All This” emerging from Mindless Material in Motion. The structure of the Cosmos must, to me, have a Great Architect.
If there is no Ultimate Good, no “Way It Ought To Be”, in short, no God, then there is no problem of evil because there is no “Evil”. It’s just stuff that happens that we find unpleasant. We only decide the “Oughts” based on how events make us feel and perhaps how to most efficiently keep an ordered society, and that is subjective and transitory. Also, ultimately, “Evil” or Death win. As Poe said “Darkness and decay and … death held illimitable dominion over all.” Adolf Hitler and Anne Frank are now both & will always be unfeeling dust swept by uncaring cosmic winds. As many questions as the existence of an Ultimately Kind & Fair Deity poses in the face of Evil, I still find it way more tolerable.
Through His Omniscience, His Spirit which indwells all Creation, and the Incarnation and Passion of His Avatar Jesus Christ, God experiences & suffers & overcomes all Evil, and promises us that we will overcome through clinging in trust to Him.
Heaven just seems too good to be true, sometimes. (Hell also seems to bad to be true, but I think I have biblical evidence it doesn’t exist.)