If God exists, he is truth itself.
If God is truth, then seeking truth is seeking God, or loving God.
One cannot honestly seek truth without putting all things into question and seeing what comes out in the truth-wash.
Therefore, questioning the existance of God is loving God.
2007-05-07 12:22:28 · 24 answers · asked by PragmaticMan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In summary, you are stating that to seek a God is to seek the truth of our creation.
However, questioning what some would consider to be a given truth would be doubting and rejecting it, which select Gods condemn.
2007-05-07 12:36:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anubis's Right Wing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think questioning the existance of God is loving God. I don't know what your purpose is with this question, but from my experience if you love someone, you want to know about them. I think God gave us brains so we could think, and He expects us to use them.
However, questioning for the sake of questioning isn't the same. Questioning with no intent to believe, just questioning to cause dissent and strife is not seeking the truth.
The difference is important.
2007-05-07 12:36:14 · answer #2 · answered by smlingrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!! Finally someone who has been illuminated!
“Faith” is belief without knowing. “Agnostic” means to not know…
SO, technically you have to be in part, agnostic if you want to have faith in God.
I hear from so many people, “Wow you’re a Bishop of a church and you are agnostic?” I proudly say “YUP!”
But you have it half right.
God is actually love. I know many anti-whatevers and A-whatevers will disagree by quoting Old Testament. God is love and not just truth, but wisdom. Devine wisdom which is why it’s good to question the nature of God and all that God has done, is doing, or will do.
Devine Wisdom is our version of enlightenment. To be illuminated is what I teach. Loving God is learning, sharing your knowledge. But it is also loving someone. Helping others and trying to inspire all peoples of all faiths to love each other as well.
God isn’t owned by any one faith, not matter what any religion will tell you. So why can’t everyone believer or not share in the love of human kind?
2007-05-07 12:34:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your line of reasoning on this. The truth will stand up to probing and questioning, and this is no lazy person's task. In fact, you ought to question your answers, question your questions, then question your motives. A good thorough testing will NOT hurt your faith. In order to do this effectively, you will need someone who holds a different opinion than you to help you question your questions. If you are an atheist, for example, a Christian can be helpful, and vice versa.
My debates with atheists in this forum have not harmed my faith; on the contrary, I have had to dig deep and ask some tough questions. This has, for me, been very positive.
Having said that, I would caution those who are easily swayed against doing this, since you will probably find your opinion constantly changing depending on who you are talking to. If you truly are weak in the faith and subject to doubts, you would do well to avoid the wolves.
Tom
2007-05-07 12:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh scoff no longer! This human being may properly be on to something! I got here about to encounter an previous holy track, modestly titled "A Housewife's Lament" which has the line "there is no longer something that very last us yet problem and mud." Does this no longer recommend that dirt is between the eternal and sacred elements of God's tremendous universe?
2016-10-18 06:20:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Questioning God is not a bad thing. Children question their parents all of the time--it is not a bad thing. How did I get here? How was I made?
We don't get angry with our own children for asking these questions and God doesn't get mad at us either.
If we don't ponder his existence, how are we to know he is real. This is what he tells us to do. I don't think he would like it so much if we just "believed" because we were told to. I think he likes it when we try to find out who he is and what he's about.
2007-05-07 12:46:00 · answer #6 · answered by Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We question so that we can learn. The more you question the more you learn. Same idea in education. Questioning you religion is not bad but you getting a better understanding and building faith. So I would say that yes, questioning God is an attempt to better understand and therefore strengthen your love.
2007-05-07 12:28:56 · answer #7 · answered by inkedcalf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If God is truth, then seeking truth is seeking God, or loving God."
When did "seeking God" become equivalent to "loving God"?
2007-05-07 16:52:30 · answer #8 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but once you find God it is important to stay on course.
More importantly than questioning or not, is removing idols from your life. Aside from if God exists, putting an idol before us deminuates our own existence.
2007-05-07 12:26:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible says God wrote into the heart of every man, knowledge about God and that creation itself speaks of His existence, such that every man is without excuse!
So . . . questioning the existence of God is not loving God . . . asking "what do you require of me?" . . . now that . . . is loving God!
2007-05-07 12:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Clark H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋