Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief!” Mark 9:24 NASB Unbelief – “To live without prayer is to live without God, to live without a soul.”[1] We’ve examined several insights about prayer. We’ve struggled with the idea—and the practice. We’ve confronted our own despondency, frailty, and unworthiness. We…
Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief!” Mark 9:24 NASB Doubt Doesn’t Matter (from August 2010, with revisions) Unbelief – What an odd expression? It’s so odd that even good translations stumble over it. The NASB adds “help me in my unbelief” in the 1963 version. The NIV substitutes…
And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” Mark 9:23-24 NASB Unbelief – What is “unbelief”? Is it some sort of doubting? Or maybe not having the right answers like failing an examination? Or maybe it’s just the inability to make the…
Immediately the boy’s father cried out and began saying, “I do believe, help me in my unbelief.” Mark 9:24 NASB Unbelief – What an odd expression? It’s so odd that even good translations stumble over it. The NASB adds “help me in my unbelief,” (1963). The NIV substitutes “help me overcome;” the NLT turns the…
