If I asked you to follow me into a darkened tunnel, all by yourself, and I just said to you "Have faith and don't ask questions"...woudl you go? If not, why is the answer all too often "have faith" when you're asked difficult questions about your religion? Why do you have such blinding faith in your religion? Why is it NOT okay to ask hard questions? Are you afraid of the answers? Because that's exactly how it appears to me.
2007-05-11 04:43:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Have faith? Yes. Don't ask questions? No. Actually this very question is resonating very deeply with a lot of Christians. Maybe some are afraid of answers but not all of us. I believe that God loves it when we ask the hard questions; the Bible is full of people who did just that, Moses, Job, David (read some the Psalms). Solomon, Jeremiah to name a few. In the new testament Jesus encouraged his disciples to question, he answered questions with more questions, pushing us to really think. In 1 thesselonians 5:21 Paul encourages us to 'test all things', the Bereans are praised for not taking anything at face value but questioning and testing.
Asking hard questions can be uncomfotable, it can be challenging but I believe that it is by questioning and by testing our faith that we grow spiritually.
Be aware though that often God doesn't give answers, He gives more questions, sometimes we discover that we may not really be looking for answers, we're really looking for the right questions.
And also bear in mind that God is unknowable. We're human and finite, God is God and infinite, it's arrogence to think we can figure him out. The more learn about God the more i realise how much I don't know. That's where faith comes in. It's never wrong to ask the questions, faith is about trusting the unknowable and understanding that we can't know or understand it all and trusting that whatever happens, wherever we go God is with us. i don't know him, I don't understand him but i do trust him. Why? simply because God has never let me down.
hope that answers your question... or at least asks some new ones!
2007-05-11 05:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by Tom C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would depend on how well I know you, and if I was really interested in what was in the tunnel. That is having faith in you and wanting to know.
If the tunnel is "Christianity", it is about faith in God and wanting to know.
The hard and difficult questions? It simply is that you may not understand the answers unless you do have faith or have become a Christian. Of course you can ask them, but you eventually will have to cross whatever lines you have drawn and find the answers for yourself... no one can do this for you.
We do not have "blind faith" in our "religion". It is just that at some point, we too have crossed our lines, and have found that God is real and alive. He has touched our hearts with His love and we can now love and have a relationship Him. It becomes more than just "religion"... it becomes our life. This is where they get the expression "born again". All those questions are not that important when compared to knowing and loving our living God.
2007-05-11 11:48:58 · answer #2 · answered by Bill Mac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our faith in God is not a blind faith, nor does He want it to be.
People believe because they have found some convincing proof (it could be they or some one they know was healed by Jesus, it could be a miracle, a dream or vision, an angle or they believe the facts of the Bible.
This does not mean that a person understand, knows or has experienced every thing in the Bible. But because they KNOW that God is real, then they know that He can and will do every thing that the Bible states (when it is time).
2007-05-11 11:54:17 · answer #3 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
our faith is not blind faith- God has proven that He is worthy of our trust- if you , or anyone else asked me to follow them into a dark tunnel and I do not know you- I could not trust you. SO I would not go in with you. It is perfectly fine to ask hard questions.
2007-05-11 12:00:17 · answer #4 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I knew who you were (including your character), I would follow you into a tunnel. Since I know God, and I know his character, faith is easy.
2007-05-11 11:49:01 · answer #5 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
-Muslim answer:
If you were to go into that tunnell knowing that you would be in the hands of God. That you will be safe with him no matter what the outcome will be then yes.
Faith is the hand that holds yours when you are in that tunnell.
It is not visible but you can feel it.
It is the sense of comfort in your soul.
It is the full feelling in the pit of your stomach.
Your questions are not hard.. but silly.
Having faith is what religion is.
My religion (Islam) and Christianity are religions that give people faith.
dont mock what we have
for we do not mock what you dont
2007-05-11 11:47:41 · answer #6 · answered by Roqayah 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I only fear that what can hurt my spirit, that what can separate me from God but I would follow you into a dark tunnel...what could you do!!
2007-05-11 11:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by Commander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its beause of the zeal in our religion we do it. We are not afraid to give answers but are bound to do that.
2007-05-11 11:48:02 · answer #8 · answered by Tom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God said it's bad not to have faith. He said we need to come to him as "little children". Little children don't have critical thinking skills.
2007-05-11 11:47:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's because they cannot answer the hard questions.Saying that they have faith is their fallback
2007-05-11 11:47:06 · answer #10 · answered by rosbif 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋