Why do people think they have a right to tell you not to question God?

Question

I question things that I know aren't right. One example of this would be why does God allow some women to hurt their own children and the women who want kids so much cannot conceive. I question this all of the time and I frankly don't care whether or not I am supposed to.

Answer 1

because they haven't experienced incomprehensible loss

Answer 2

When you question someone about their sincere and strong beliefs about religion or anything else, they become defensive, even hurt and hostile. If you believed that you loved someone and were innocent of a crime, and someone questioned your belief, how friendly would you respond?
About your concern about why does God allow something, the answer is simple. God gave us free will. Would you want your actions, choices and even your moods controlled? It would be hell on earth. I like to think of God not so much a a physical person, but a representative of everyting there is, and there are rules to what everything is. God is everything that is good. The devil is everything that is bad. The two are in constant conflict because its hard to have a good without a bad. Dont worry about fairness. Nothing in life is guaranteed!-- except if you are spritually content, your life will be much more peaceful. Don't be bitter about this. Live your life helping and healing others, and not questioning other's beliefs or dictates to the point of it making you yourself have an unpeaceful life. Good luck and journey into a different attitude.That is what God can allow you.
Bye now.

Answer 3

It is okay to question God my dear. I do it all the time too and I consider myself a Christian. Being Christian doesnt' make u perfect. We are definately human and it is human to have doubts. I know what your saying about the baby thing. I am a healthy female, play sport, smart, play instruements, don't get sick much...But I've been on birth control for almost four years now and can't stop taking it becuase my ovaries and reproductive crap just doesn't work right hormonally. IT's the only medication I take on a regular basis...and you think i would like it but i don't. There are so many questions. But you'll come to peach with yourself and the answers you find if you just answer them in your heart. That's what I have to do.

Answer 4

All questions are legitimate. I think what people are struggling to say is "don't blame God for choices that people make." Because they don't know how to answer the question, they try to stop you from asking the question.

Even something like Katrina, bad as it was, was a man-made disaster. Man built the levy, the levy broke. Man is as unprepared for a little rain as he is for many other things, in part because he refuses to ask the right questions. So go ahead and ask questions. God will answer them all if you listen carefully.

Answer 5

You have every right to ask questions. In the Jewish scriptures, if this has any validity for you, its said that God says, "Come, let us reason together." Now, maybe its just me and maybe I misunderstand that quote, but reasoning together would seem to indicate a two way conversation with, in this instance, questions being acceptable. Aside from that, the idea that blind faith is required to believe in God or any thing else ... Well, blind faith being what it is, which is blind, how would anyone be able to SEE the truth in anything??? Blind faith, in my opinion, is no true faith at all. Real faith rests in confidence on reason, among other things. Which takes us right back to the above quote, doesn't it? ~ Peace & Blessings ~

Answer 6

I don't think God minds if you question Him about things like that, sometimes you can't help it. As long as you are not questioning His existence. I pray the Psalms sometimes and a lot of the Psalms ask why. Sometimes you get an answer right away, sometimes it seems like you never get an answer, but that is one of the things He will show us when we get there. We aren't going to see and understand everything in this lifetime, we are only human, but I firmly believe that we will understand when we see our life on this earth as God sees it.

Answer 7

if there is a god ( and i say this as one who does believe ) i don't think god would want you to accept all you are told or all you see in this world without question .. it is natural and normal to question .. and very important to question
if we didn't question we would never progress .. if we didn't wonder we would simply be robots .. we are given a mind with free will to decide on what is right for us and what makes sense to us
what i have to say though is , i don't feel that god allows as such these horrible things in our lives but man is responsible for his own actions without blaming everything on god .. in the same respect our triumphs in life are ours also
to me god is the creator .. the observer ... the energy source we return to
i run my own life and take full responsibility for it and all that happens in it however i also feel that some things are out of our hands and we may know the answer or reasoning for it

Answer 8

i dont even look at it like "i question things that i know arent right".... to me its more "i question things that i dont know are right". i dont know if theres a god or not. believe in him, dont believe in him, whatever you want, its cool with me. i'm not claiming to have some kind of divine cosmic knowledge of the creation or existence of the universe.

i'm not the guy with all the right answers, but for me it boils down to this:

nobody can ever prove or disprove that there is or is not a god.
just because some book says there is one, doesnt make it true. theres lots of other books that say other things, a lot of them about the same thing, but with totally different views. i read a book about some green eggs and ham once, and a cat in a big striped hat, that doesnt mean it actually happened. AND, conversely, just because theres not any solid proof of gods existence, doesnt mean there isnt one. the absence of evidence is NOT the evidence of absence. prove to me that a billion dollars exists. now, i'm never going to see a billion dollars in my life, so unless you put it in my hands i dont have to believe it, right? well, guess what, that doesnt prove it doesnt exist either.

so, at the end of the day, believers of god are just standing up for their beliefs, something they really feel to be true. and atheists are just standing up for their beliefs as well, its what they believe to be true. 2 sides of the same coin, that cant fathom how anyone could think differently than they do. we'd all be a lot happier if we could go "oh, you believe in that?? thats cool. i actually believe in this. yeah, it works for me" and be cool to each other.

so, think whatever you want, and question everything. its cool by me. you can worship a can of pringles for all i care. if thats what works for you, go to town.

Answer 9

Everything is yours to question because God gave us free will. Don't ever feel guilty. God feels the more we question things, the more we will eventually understand on our own. Which is what he wants us to do anyway. We are supposed to remember who we are.

Answer 10

Some people can be a little pushy. God gave us the gift of free will and he wants you to love with that free will. He choses his flock when the time is right. Maybe right now is not your time. Maybe your time has yet to come.

Answer 11

The xtians are told this and have been for centuries to prevent them discovering the flaws, so challenging the authority of their 'peers'.
Those that decide to question if you've noticed, find the flaws and have to either stop believing, or rearrange their religion to account for all the inconsistencies.

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'its-all-lies' has hit the nail on the head! :)