What if the Bible never told you to stop questioning? What if we were simply taught what we were supposed to believe about it? Look at these verses: Mark 11:23 — believe and do not doubt in your heart. Matthew 21:22 — whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. James 1:6 — ask in faith, with no doubting. John 20:27 — “Do not doubt but believe.” Proverbs 3:5 — trust with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. For many of us, these verses were explained through the idea of an external God. You pray to Him, you ask Him, and then you wait for Him to decide what happens. But what if you actually pick up the Bible and read it without someone telling you beforehand what every verse means? This is where Neville Goddard completely changed the way I see Scripture. Neville interpreted the Bible psychologically. He believed the characters, events and teachings were describing something happening within consciousness. His central message was that God is not a distant being somewhere outside of you. God is your own consciousness. So when Jesus says, “believe,” the question becomes much more personal. What are you accepting as true? What are you imagining? What are you assuming about yourself and your life? What are you giving your attention to repeatedly? From Neville's perspective, faith isn't just hoping that an external God will eventually change your circumstances. Faith is accepting an assumption as true and allowing yourself to occupy that state inwardly. And perhaps “do not doubt” isn't telling you to become afraid of questioning. Perhaps it's showing you what happens when you keep asking for something while internally assuming it isn't possible. You ask for the mountain to move, then spend the next ten minutes looking at the mountain wondering why it hasn't moved. Neville would tell you to change the inner state first. This is why reading the Bible through his lens can feel completely different. The Bible becomes less about waiting for something outside of yourself and more about discovering what consciousness is doing right now.