Cicero acknowledged a category of people who "fear nothing so much as appearing to be in doubt about anything." Sounds like he was familiar with 21st Century Christians. Though there are some beautifully humble people among us, the people politicians recognize as the Christian Right consider certainty about all matters a virtue. Where and when this is the case, uncertainty is viewed as a weakness. We imagine that there are no matters of ambiguity, no shades, no nuanced positions, just black and white, right and wrong. When we think like this we take a cookie cutter approach to almost everything and we have template answers for every problem. It does make life more simple, but it misses out on the very nature of God and it negates mystery.
Over the years, I have observed that people of equal devotion to Jesus and equal biblical integrity can look at the same texts of Scripture and come away with very different ideas about what the texts mean. Certainly, there are things about which God wants us to have confidence, but to imagine that our understanding in all matters of doctrine and life is itself infallible is to fail to adhere to Paul's assertion that we know only in part and we see all things as through a smudged window (1 Corinthians 13:9,12).- And that's on our best day, with the benefit of superb scholarship and the influence of the Holy Spirit. Until "imperfection puts on imperfection," (1 Corinthians 13:10) that's the way it will be.
When we develop templates for every problem we encounter, we function like robots instead of rational human beings who live under the Spirit's influence. Jesus did not live life that way. His answers were often counter intuitive and even surprising to His listeners, though usually upsetting to the religious status quo.
May you and I discover the humility to help us see how little we actually know. May we discover the virtue of uncertainty.