Contemporary Creed Doubts: Causes and Explanatory Models through Social Media

Abstract

This study aims to elucidate the impact of social media on doctrinal doubt phenomenon, elaborating the underlying causes, formulating an explanatory model and proposing recommendations to mitigate their spread of social media. The descriptive-analytical methodology was adopted. The study comes in an introduction and five sections. The introduction defines the key terms. Section one describes the types of contemporary doctrinal doubts. Section two discusses categories of individuals susceptible to creed doubt. Section three explains the causes of creed doubt. Section four deals with creed confusion symptoms and explanatory model. Section five suggests solutions. The findings showed that creed doubts spread due to ancient misconceptions, deviant methodologies theories. The causes were decentralized communication, easy access to propagated doubts, and weak foundational values of social media platforms. In knowledge theories, the causes included scientific methods, skepticism, and the chaos of jurisprudential approaches. Components of doubt involved weak acceptance of religious texts, insufficient scholarly qualification, arrogance, and rebellion. Those susceptible to doubts were strong atheists, weak atheists, and partial or total skeptics. Types of doubt included cognitive, psychological, desire-driven, or fascination-based doubts. Solutions entailed prevention, addressing misconceptions, and responding to the most widespread doubts.