2006-10-31 22:28:27 · 10 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That applies to me in nearly every area not dominated by cold hard fact. Religion, creativity, poetry, love...
The more you learn, I've found, the more you realize is still out there left to learn, and wht you do know just gets proportionately smaller.
2006-10-31 22:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You ask very good questions, and I enjoy responding to them.
As a Catholic mystic, everything that I know I don't know is a very important part of my faith. I think too often, we human beings think everything can be explained down to the concise detail. And it is in our nature to try and find answers to all of the things that puzzle us.
But there are limits to what we can find with our instruments. The hubble telescope can use relativistic effects to use stars as a magnifying glass and peer far back into the universe's history. But it can only peer back so far, because before the universe was filled with a transparent hydrogen plasma, it was filled with a thick hydrogen soup. Radio telescopes can peer back further, even 300,000 years after the big bang, by studying the background radiation of the universe.
But no telescope can tell us the all important question - why?
1 Corinthians 13 says, "Now I know only in part. One day I will know fully, even as I am fully known." That is the comfort religion brings: we are not adrift on a sea of ignorance; we are not doomed to an unfinished quest. Someday God will reveal all things to us.
And for now, that allows us to appreciate the joy of not knowing, but admiring the beauty of it all nonetheless.
2006-11-01 06:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorant people tend to be certain about a lot of improbable things. Wise people have a lot of doubts. This is true across the board, not just in religion. We're all reluctant to throw our hands up and admit we don't know things, but ultimately I think that's the position we're all in. We're here, we can understand a few things, but no one really knows what's going on.
2006-11-01 06:36:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no for me. If I don't know the answer I always say I don't know. I am not a schoolar I am a regular person doing my best to learn more about my religion. But if I know the answer or know were to find it then I will do my best to answer. But if some does not know they should say I don't know instead of trying to act like they do and give false information.
2006-11-01 08:06:47 · answer #4 · answered by Umm Ali 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. "I know that I don't know" is a good way of describing my position on many religious matters. I think that a certain amount of skepticism and agnosticism is important and healthy in any religious system, for the simple fact that matters of religion are notoriously difficult to verify.
Peace and blessings
2006-11-01 06:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by Michael H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely there things I don't understand. But I know when I get to heaven God will answer all my questions.
It would be so easy to blame God for the illness I have, but the bible tells us God will not put more on you than you
can bear. Why should I be any different from anyone else, we all have our own crosses to bear. I told another cronically ill lady I went to church with that God must think we're awfully strong because he knew we were strong enough for our illnesses. I'm not being arrogant its just my way to grin and bear it til I get to heaven. I know that at the lowest points in my life when all I had was God to confort me he answered my prayers. The one thought that always stuck with me was when we die and we face God and he says why? How will I answer, I know how I want to answer.
2006-11-01 07:16:20 · answer #6 · answered by aunt reesy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would sy that it does....mostly becasue there are so many things to learn that NO ONE oculd truly know. We undstand what we believe...but beyone that....no mortal knows for sure about anything...Maybe my belief that ALL cultures were created by their gods and those gods created their portions of the universe is the right one....may be the universe was created by a single deity is right...I don't know...YOU don't know...NO ONE knows. It is just a matter of faith....
2006-11-01 06:42:38 · answer #7 · answered by kveldulfgondlir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We equate to fly speck in the scheme of things and much is
beyond our capabilities to know or even to comprehend. Why
make up stuff or just parrot stuff others have made up?
2006-11-01 06:33:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ofcourse,if i dont know something i will say or otherwise there is hell
2006-11-01 06:33:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, because i don't really know
2006-11-01 06:31:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋