The book A Prayer for Owen Meany presents various themes and questions that are difficult to answer easily. One such question is: “Can religious faith coexist with doubt, or are the two mutually exclusive?” There are several possible approaches to answering this question. How a person answers this question is related to their belief in the faith. Among the different answers to this question, I will start with “faith cannot exist alongside doubt”. The two ARE mutually exclusive. This goes with the fact that complete faith means exactly that. Faith means “complete trust in a person or plan, etc.” » (according to WordNet). For us, to have faith, we cannot doubt. An example of this would be when Owen keeps asking John if the statue is there or not, even though he can't see it through the fog. John's only response is "I know." Owen responds with “that’s how I feel about God.” Now, John's "belief" is based on the fact that he has seen the statue in this position before, and he believes that it could not have moved since he last saw it. Owen goes further and calls it faith. The next answer to this question might be “I have faith, but I also have doubts.” This is the answer that most people can relate to. Very rarely will you find a person who has complete faith, and you will also rarely find a person who completely doubts. Everyone believes in something, but almost no one believes in anything purely. That sounds a lot like John. Throughout the book, John goes from not believing in God to believing in God too (at the end of the story), mostly believing while having a little doubt. Throughout the book, John has faith but doubts. When he moved to Canada and became a member of the Anglican Church, it took him years to fully accept their doctrine. We consider this to be the predominant answer to the question “do you have faith?” Even in biblical times, notable people in the Bible had faith but faced serious doubts. The other answer to the question is that faith is doubt. This basis rests on the fact that since there is so little evidence, one must doubt therefore one must have faith..