is it WRONG to Question LOVE... to Question FAITH?

Question

does it LESSEN the LOVE or the FAITH in the manner of ASKING?
is asking for assurance ALWAYS a SIGN of MISTRUST or DOUBT?

Answer 1

Wow Enki another thought provoking question hahaha and I thought I was deep good question Enki Binki :))) I think we have all questioned our Love and our faith in our lives it is smart at times and than at times its painful :)I do not believe it lessend the Love or the Faith in the manner of asking I think it just helps us to be wise and protect ourselves from not wasting our time on Love that is not given back the way we give to it. Someone said to me once that when you love another you call that person you see how they are when one does not do the same back the love is leaving so than you have to make the choice to move on and not look back that is the hardest thing to do, I believe that your love does not change for that other but the engergy you gave to that love is not the same the degree of it:) Faith now is another thing you believe or you donot thank God for God or there would be many lost souls in this world. Sometimes with faith you have to believe that things happen for a reason and we can not question it Faith is Hope like my grandma told me when I was little Faith, Hope ,love and charity if you have these in your life you will have a blessed life until the day you die. You will find peace in your everyday life and your future Godbless Enki always :))))

Answer 2

maybe it is but i dont think so...to question anything in general it is because u are trying to find anwsers and love and faith is no different...they may be spiritual feelings and in that u can only feel them but u are only human to think about whatever it is and if u are thinking abt it y not just ask questions bcuz u r going 2 have questions...abt lessening the love or faith it shouldnt, it should make u stronger but sometimes it does as it depends on the answer u gets.

Is asking for assurance aways a sign of mistrust...most of the times it will seem that way but it shouldnt be...asking for assurance is a sign of u caring and wanting to know where u stand not necessarily bcuz their is mistrust or doubt but maybe u believe but u just want the person to say it, it will build ur confidence more if u get the answer u want...if u are being assured and u had doubt before then the doubt will go away iy depends on how convinced u r....

Love and Faith...u cant stop questions from coming so if they are there ask them and it is to challenge ur belief and how well you are strong in whatevere u believe in and if it is to find answers just stick with the ones that u feel more comfortable with and where u can be urself at all times.
if u want assurance and it is not bcuz of mistrust or doubt assure the person thats its nether and i guess both of u will understand each other...

Answer 3

By questioning we gain knowledge. Knowledge helps us reason. Strong reason "strengthens" faith. So it is not wrong.

No asking for assurance could be you don't have enough reason or strength or maybe you have an ache that needs some help to heal either mentally or physically-is that a sign of doubting? Perhaps not -maybe just a sign you would like more to complete trust to it's fullest. possibility or help one be more content to feel better.

Example Parents help a child who has fallen down and scape their knee--the child knows they would---they never doubted that nor do they mistrust that their parents will not help.--but they seek more of a confidence that they will make an ache feel better.. And they do--they pick them up, they feel sorrow for them, they tend to them and try to help them from their pain. I don't think you would say the child was doubting or mistrusting---they just needed more to" feel "better.

Someone who knows this -would have no trouble understanding what is needed and why. Like the above parent. But not all know that kind of love-perhaps it is something they lack more.

Answer 4

In my opinion, no to both. To love usually requires an effort,
and effort should be justified. To have faith requires some
discretion regarding the source, otherwise an individual
would have equal faith with everything. Therefore, faith
is something regarding a subject which is not observable,
and it follows that even more trust should be assigned
to the source if the subject is not observable. If an individual
is going to yield to the exclusive observation of the source
then that source should be questioned. Should love
be believed with faith? The common definition of love
often includes love based on faith that the relationship
will be mutual because relationships are rarely 50/50.
Asking can be viewed in the same way as answering.
Is it wrong to not answer love? Is not answering always
a sign of mistrust or doubt? Rather than solely viewing
the question as out of place can't the refusal of answer
be regarded as out of place. After all, if the people
were truly in love then the person should love the
other person enough to answer. In my opinion, it
is more reasonable to expect that questions will
be acceptable and the answers given to them
might distance the people from each other, but
that is as it should be in all honesty. Therefore,
love which requires effort should be based on a
proper premise.

Answer 5

Question everything. And never seek assurance. It's not possible. If anything can be destroyed by questioning, it has no substance and is best discarded. If it has substance, questioning will only enhance it. That's why belief is fragile and reacts defensively to questioning. It makes assumptions, and holds expectations - both questionable. But true faith is different. It makes no assumptions, presumes no expectations. It is not invested in anything (that's belief). So once it is acquired it supports questioning, however alarming, and it cannot be damaged by questioning - merely enhanced. It's sad that the religious confuse faith with belief. And there are similar confusions over love, which when true can always question but asks nothing of the loved, whereas what most people mistake for it, asks everything and is always in question.

Answer 6

We learn to know the truth of love not by "asking." Asking for assurance sort of implies insecurity, & if you FEEL insecurity, it's no place to be. To question love & faith suggests a reason, (but not always). If you're sensitive to the other, if there is harmony--not that at times things don't need to be clarified, or compromises made--questions shouldn't be necessary. I wouldn't say it's WRONG, but if you truly think about your motivations--you may find the answer there.

Edit: I just looked at the answers; I assumed by "faith" you meant faith in the the one you love. & that in no way did it have to do with religion. Those are two separate questions.

Answer 7

Without the question then there is no resolve to the condition or answer. For as in love, when one ask if it can be true then one will find the answer and take appreciate steps to assure their own love, but all questions of love and faith should begin in the heart of the one seeking the answers.

Question our faith is a constant renewal of checks and balances, cause so many people confuse doctrine with faith.
Always one must have faith, but by checking the source of your knowledge, that it is truth from above and not from earthy, you advance your wisdom, your knowledge that raise your concepts of the Spiritual. For it is God that is the source of the answers and the advancement of ones ideal. To ask is to receive!

Answer 8

That is tough one actually! But I'll say you have different types of love. You share different relationships with different individuals and your love may be equally shared to them but not necessarily your trust! I have some Friends who I would blindly trust and some who in spite I'm really close to, I wouldn't want to share some stuff with them. Trusting does always make love stronger. In a way it does degrade the love you have slightly if you have doubts but if the person loves you truly then if they understand your mistrust and accept it, it then makes your love even stronger. Anyway, it takes time to engrave your trust for someone but love is a great thing and time would see off that mistrust and will fill it with only loveliness. You've just got to give it time! You can't question the love I have for my family, but sometimes I do have mistrusts and my parents do have doubts about me; but that doesn't lessen the strong bond or love we share! Absolutely not! They mean the world to me and mistrust does sink in, but it's my duty to get rid of it! :-)
Hardest question, I've ever answered on Y!A

Answer 9

Love and Faith are two things you shouldn't have to question. As far as asking, you should ask for each day and live it too the fullest. Humans will allways have doubts, let the faith take care of that, and remember, what you have doubt in will probably never happen for you but what you have faith in will.

Answer 10

Both questions are interrelated.

How can you question Love and not question Faith. They're one in the same thing.

Of course, the religously fanatical-who have no real understanding or appreciation of Life on a whole & are only concerned with their own totally insignificant world-will attempt to make, the classical 'mountain out of mole hill'.

There's no harm in the asking. It's how, where, why and what is the answer, that is the crucial part.