is it wrong to question faith ?

Question

faith seems to have two meanings....

there is factual faith... i have faith that someone will hate on this question and that i down to experience

I have blind faith that only seems to appear in the religious temperament which maybe causes the factual hate mentioned above.

It seems the same word has the same meaning with two differences and that alone is confusing people.

hence my previous question where I am accused of being childish for thinking, and then posting my thoughts heres by way of a question.

Answer 1

If it was wrong to question faith, then God wouldn't have given you freewill.

Answer 2

Of course it isn't. If your faith is strong, or the faith of others is strong, then questioning will only help you to understand that faith a little better. It's like looking at a work of art and thinking deeply on the different meanings/intentions the artist had for the piece. Is it a purely factual recording, or do the figures have some sort of metaphorical meaning?

Religion, in my opinion, is meant to help us understand the world around us, ourselves and how the two can interact to the benefit of both. Granted, I don't see it used that way on a regular basis by many, but I think that is the true meaning of religion. Now, many people can have faith in a certain set of ideas, but religious people are more likely to be the ones exploring their faith, questioning the reasons behind certain teachings, expanding the views of their fellows on different subjects within the religion. That is why I think theologians of any religion are the ones most likely to practice the truest form of that religion; they take the beliefs and really examine them, and their faith is stronger for it.

Answer 3

Factual faith is a lot easier to have than blind faith, but blind faith tends to frequently bring more benefits.

Some people may say that it is wrong to question faith, but I think it is completely right. We have to question everything, or we will never fully comprehend that it is right; we will never fully believe it. Sometimes, what starts off as blind faith developes into factual faith through questioning - we come to feel, deep inside, an undeniable testiment that what we once had blind faith in is so real that the faith is no longer blind.

Answer 4

I think that if you aren't questioning your faith then you really don't have faith at all.

However, that does not mean you need to concern yourself with other people's faith. You will have enough questioning to do on your own faith, don't get yourself all worked up over someone else's.

And it is even healthy to question factual faith. Can there even be such a thing as factual faith? seems like an oxymoron to me. I mean, is you know something based on fact, then that can no longer be considered faith. Faith involves having no facts, just believeing.
~Gypsy~

Answer 5

i've heard that question faith or if u try to get to the true by questionin god that's sin. Churches and censor in the past could say that this is sin so peeps who weren't educated were scared, actualy Christians in the past were terrorists who were killin and convertin in the name of god.

But i think it can't be sin that we want to know somethin.

I think it's not wrong if u search for some answer. If there is a god and u live ok u r not hurtin others then it will be ok. If u live good and there is no god u won't lose anythin. But if u r evil and there is god or not your live will sux anyway

Answer 6

The Bible believing Christians I know question their faith all the time and seek answers (and find them!) The scary people are the ones who don't, then you get people believing that only this one church knows God, or an Angel gave their leader gold tablets, or that all scripture has to be interpreted by a watchful organization and so on. A good church won't ask you to check your mind at the door but challenge your pre-conceived notions.

Answer 7

Most religions will claim that it's alright to question faith (blind faith) but then they ostracize you if you reach a conclusion that differs from their accepted stance. Of course it's perfectly fine to question faith. And if you reach a conclusion that differs from a particular belief system, great! All that means is that in your case, they were mistaken. Please question faith, especially blind faith. If we never question the words of someone else, we run the risk of being lied to, and those lies can be used to control us.

Answer 8

I said play on words was childish,not you.I am sorry It was not meant to insult you.Words have more meaning than that given in the dictionary,they also have the meaning the reader receives them in and the meaning the writer sends them in.
Faith of course is much like words.

Answer 9

Personally, I don't feel that your thinking is childish at all - in fact, I think you are quite philosophical in your thinking.

Faith does take on many forms.

And it is fine to question one's faith from time to time for that is what human beings do.
Even priests question their faith at times.

Don't always concern yourself with what other people think - just feel free to march to the beat of your own drum - and let your heart and mind guide you.

Answer 10

I don't think it is wrong to question faith at all. If it were completely unquestionable, then like you say, it would be a fact and everyone would believe it. I think it would be abnormal if people didn't question their faith from time to time.

Answer 11

To be able to question ones faith, is in itself an ability of the person intellectuality. Who ever seek the truth in his religion is to learn more quickly. Those who goes; all right there is God, and they don't look the Holy Bible, they don't know God, and God don't know them.