Can you be a Christian and still doubt

Yes. Not as a compromise — as a normal condition of believing anything enormous while carrying a finite mind. Every Christian who has thought at all has doubted at length; the ones who say otherwise have either stopped thinking or stopped being honest, and we require neither as an entrance fee. “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (Mark 9:24) is in the canon for a reason. It is the collected prayer of the honest.

Notice how Christ dealt with doubters, because it is our charter. He did not shame Thomas; He offered his hands. “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands” (John 20:27) — the evidence was not a concession to weakness. It was respect for a real question. John the Baptist, in prison, sent messengers to ask whether Jesus was really the one — and Christ answered with evidence and then praised John to the crowd as none greater born of women (Matthew 11:2-11). Doubt did not disqualify him. It never has.

What disqualifies is not the question but the refusal to walk with it — slamming the door and calling the slam a conclusion. Faith, in Scripture, is trust in a Person, not certainty about every proposition; it can walk with a limp. So limp honestly: keep praying your questions, keep gathering with believers, keep your unresolved files open. Most doubts are not solved; they are outgrown, the way a child outgrows old rooms. Bring yours along. There is room in this house for the limping — the door was made for them.