What is the history of Doubt? When was it born? Who seeded it?
Doctrine would have us believe its the serpent. He who whispered in Eve's ear. Wouldn't then this situate the fall even before she bit down? We were doomed from the mere existence of a possibility, albeit a new possibility.

The doubt which festered inside Eve before she bit down could not have existed unless there was a space for it to exist. Her trust and belief and faith in the word of God provided her the means by which she could doubt. Trusting in God necessarily precludes its opposite, not trusting Him. Doubt is the recognition that everything exists on a pole and that faith in God requires the existence of an equal opposite, no faith in God, each as true as the other.

When Eve reached to pluck the apple from the tree the fall had already occurred. What had been doubt a moment before was now belief, belief in the unbelief of God. In this light it almost seems like Doubt is the gift from God. Doubt is what makes us human. It is the process by which we create truths. We are presented with a set of givens and rather than blindly accepting them we seek to validate them by creating their opposite. But even if our search is well-intentioned, to validate our trust in God, we've already bitten into the apple and the ground beneath our feet is no longer there.

Since our expulsion from the Garden Doubt has been on the move. It's allowed for every discovery and innovation on which we build the world. Newton and Martin Luther, King Jr. and Jesse Owens. I can run faster than you. (maybe I can't?) But doubt is equally seedy. By my very own definition it is as good as it is evil. To make something true doubt must also make something untrue. So via the same process by which doubt proves everything is possible it also proves nothing is possible. And we as hapless victims simultaneously believe the truth in both.

That I cannot become a prize fighter, an astrophysicist, the president or a trillionaire. That you are not my brother, my cousin, my friend and parent. That I cannot do. That I cannot be. Evil is born the moment this personal doubt is transferred externally. Because I can't, you can't either. We are the unknowing transmitters of doubt. We've created a hegemony amongst ourselves whereby nothing is possible because we each constantly say so to each other. You cannot do this because you are a child. You cannot do this because you are black. You cannot do you cannot do you cannot do. How sad, because the under current beneath this doubt sings loudly the opposite. Yes you can. Yes you can.

How then do we access the second song, the one of unlimited and achievable potential? I'm afraid it's a paradox. First we must somehow learn how to doubt doubt. Sounds strangely like belief, like faith, like biting into the apple as if both God and the serpent exist in the same body.