Once the Christian opens Pandora's box of "faith," they then try with all of their might to close it on every other "belief" but their own. Hence it is not that the Christian is not full of doubt, for the Christian is perhaps the greatest doubting Thomas that ever lived! It is just that the Christian reserves their doubt for anything and everything that in any way seems to challenge their "belief" in Christianity.
This is ironic, of course, since anyone who "doubts" Christianity is simply being as much of a "doubting Thomas" toward that religion as the Christian is quite proud to be about every other system of beliefs, besides Christianity.
From then on, the Christian becomes convinced that the "meaning of life" boils down to simply accepting Christianity as necessarily "true," and then sticking to this conclusion with all the obstinacy of the devil in Milton's Paradise Lost, even unto their own death if need be, just to prove they are "right" to "believe" it.
The trouble with this kind of thinking, however, is that once you have decided that "faith" in a "belief" is all you really need to transform that "belief" into an "infallible truth," you have opened the door for anyone to do the same thing, by simply claiming that any "belief" a person chooses to have "faith" in must likewise "transubstantiate' that "belief" into an "infallible truth" as well.
The Christian will accuse the atheist of simply having a "faith" in science or their own atheism, for example, without blinking an eye at the fact that by doing so, they are simply condemning the atheist for doing precisely what it is the Christian is so proud of doing - namely, holding their "beliefs" to be true, through nothing but 'faith."
But again, by this standard, every "belief" is necessarily equally valid. Of course, the Christian will only ever "doubt" this, because the salvation of their eternal soul requires them to do so - so their faith compels them to "believe" in one perspective, and to only aspire to doubt every other.
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This is ironic, of course, since anyone who "doubts" Christianity is simply being as much of a "doubting Thomas" toward that religion as the Christian is quite proud to be about every other system of beliefs, besides Christianity.
From then on, the Christian becomes convinced that the "meaning of life" boils down to simply accepting Christianity as necessarily "true," and then sticking to this conclusion with all the obstinacy of the devil in Milton's Paradise Lost, even unto their own death if need be, just to prove they are "right" to "believe" it.
The trouble with this kind of thinking, however, is that once you have decided that "faith" in a "belief" is all you really need to transform that "belief" into an "infallible truth," you have opened the door for anyone to do the same thing, by simply claiming that any "belief" a person chooses to have "faith" in must likewise "transubstantiate' that "belief" into an "infallible truth" as well.
The Christian will accuse the atheist of simply having a "faith" in science or their own atheism, for example, without blinking an eye at the fact that by doing so, they are simply condemning the atheist for doing precisely what it is the Christian is so proud of doing - namely, holding their "beliefs" to be true, through nothing but 'faith."
But again, by this standard, every "belief" is necessarily equally valid. Of course, the Christian will only ever "doubt" this, because the salvation of their eternal soul requires them to do so - so their faith compels them to "believe" in one perspective, and to only aspire to doubt every other.
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