Give me a good doubter any day of the week.  I don't want to be like a sheep that follows the crowd and ends up going over the cliff.  Sheep are stupid.  When you doubt something, you should try to find out the truth.

Peter doubted.  When  Mary Magdalene, and Johanna the mother of James came back from the empty tomb, none of the disciples believed their story.  Luke 23: 11-12 "And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.  Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulcher; and stooping down, he held the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass."

Good old Peter.  Everyone else was sitting around agreeing with each other.  But Peter was an individual who was always asking questions.  Always looking for the truth.  So even though he didn't believe the two women, he got up off his behind and ran--not walked--to the tomb to check it out for himself.  He doubted what the women had told them, but his doubt wasn't going to stop him from checking it out for himself.

And then, he wondered "in himself at what had happened."  Then he was ready for the truth.  I think you can tell I really love this character, Peter.  He is so real.  Flawed, but a real person.  Always first to speak.  Always first to question.  Never intimidated.  I just think he is a neat person.  If you want to get a real picture of him, read what Luke and Acts have to say about him.

1 Peter 1: 15-16 Moreover, I will endeavor that you may be able after I die to have these things always in remembrance.  For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."  He was an eyewitness.  He checked everything out for himself.  And when he discovered the truth, his life was never the same.