Does complete faith demand a less questioning mind? Is that why human faith in God is imperfect in most cases?

Answer 1

Complete faith is an unquestioning mind - unconflictedness. We all have it - are conditioned to "believe" in the duality of the reality around us from birth.

Questioning is the beginning of waking and discarding what you've been programmed to have faith in.

Unity with God/reality is NOT a perfecting of faith but a return to knowledge of the Real.

Answer 2

Well, faith demands us to stop questioning the meaning of our lives. Which in turn may be a godsend considering the plethora of existential crises flying about these days.

Human faith is neither perfect nor imperfect. It is merely a mental adaptation to the human need for authority, identity, law, and purpose. It is a mechanism to help us maintain society, and defend our fragile psyches against the troubling awareness of our eventual demise.

Human faith in God will always confuse the philosopher who thinks it’s about trying to understand God, because faith is really about how the faith in God affects the behavior of men.

So many Atheists, so few Darwinists.

Religion persists because it conveys a survival advantage on those who believe.
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Answer 3

NO.

A questioning mind should be a requirement, sadly it's not.

Considering the obvious intellect of some of the early members of the Christian Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine of Hippo etc, Maimonedes, al-Ghazzali, Confucius or Lao Tse These guys were serious deep thinkers and also men of deep conviction.

Sadly however, these characters are utterly absent from the scene except in some rather understated roles. They are certainly not among the flim-flam artists of televangelism or jihadi militiamen.

It just happens that there are the vast majority of people who profess some flavor of faith who really are intellectually lazy and want someone to tell them what to think so they don't have to.

Modern religious thought would do well to cultivate young and curious minds to question their own traditions deeply and consider the mysteries of their respective faiths.

Modern religions will NEED the changes brought about by such inquiry if they intend to continue to bring value to human culture and not become degenerate into reactionary violence or simply become irrelevant.

Answer 4

No. Knowledge is a primary requirement for faith. How do you gain that without a questioning mind? It is certainly not right to be accepting things without scrutinizing whether they are right or wrong. But there are things which cannot be fathomed by the human mind because it is very inferior compared to God's intellect - things like God is the Beginning and the End, etc. But when the answer comes from the Bible, we have to believe it. Do not justify by our brains which is a big nothing compared to Godly knowledge.

Answer 5

Faith and questioning are opposed. It might be possible for some thinkers to question things and to have faith in more primitive times, but by now, there is just too much scientific data that conflicts with religion for anyone to have faith unless he asks no questions about this. Faith in imaginary gods is itself quite imperfect by definition to a logical man.

Answer 6

no, i would say faith is built up threw having a questioning mind, using the mind you were given , to then arrive at and continue to build a strong , analyzed belief
ps: you have to question, to find answers, otherwise what are you going to believe? what someone else has told you?
i suppose you could just go with what feels right in your heart, any feelings you were born with, but it would be so hard i think to isolate those feelings and concepts from what you have learned or been told in life, the influences of what God is and what your relationship should be, that you have received from society,

Answer 7

Yes! Religion in general demands a total mental servitude to their dogmas (faith)
Superstitions fueled by faith are at the core of all brainwashing systems.

Answer 8

Ultimately faith is a matter of having a completely unquestioning mind. When you come across an idea of any kind, test it. What's it's validity? How plausible is it?

Answer 9

I don't think many people have 'complete ' faith.Nor do I think that many people have a questioning mind or a scientific temper.I think people have a survival instinct..A 'complete 'faith may go against this instinct.

Answer 10

No questioning is required. If the faith was less questioning then we don't have Bhagawad Gita. (Arujna asked Krsna why I need to fight my own family)