Will God condemn us for having a questioning intellect on religious matters?

Question

After all he made some with questioning seeking minds

But it seems a questioning mind is the opposite of faith which is all that is required

Answer 1

weve all got our beliefs, but t find the true path of god to enter his kingdom we have t ask, and explore the words of gods. only person who can actually understand the bible to its true meaning is god himself. the rest of us have assumptions of wat things mean. put the whole world together and we will then understand wat the bible is saying. meaning that all of us together make god. to find any sense, u need t believe, have faith, learn, understand gain knowledge, and grow wisdom. good luck in your quest.

Answer 2

Greetings!

Well, the only reason there are people out there with questions, is because the mind; which separates and is like a huge store house; is trying to Analise religion; which also separates cultures, and race.

With all that God created, why would God condemn that which has come from pure Unconditional Love? God doesn't mind if we have questions. The answers are within you. Inside of all of us is a magnificent piece of God. So, naturally and inherently we have total access to remember that truth of who, what, where and what we are and about.

Religion has about 5% of the good, helpful stuff that is what we call Truth of what is empowering. Inside of your heart is 100%. Look there first, last , and always when you are confused or just plain courious.

Blessings

Answer 3

The apostle paul commended the Beroeans for being "noble minded and carefully examining the scriptures to see if these things were so". The bible also encourages us to test every inspired utterance. Faith should not be blind, but based on REASONING from the scriptures.
So no, god does not condemn us for using our "power of reason". ROM 12:1

Answer 4

we have to use our intellect on religious matters, if you look carefully at muslims who were previously christians, it is their inquisitive mind, the fact that they had important questions which were unanswered, that led them to islam, and they found that it has all the answers, the fact that jesus is a prophet of God, born miraculously and that God does not beget and is not begotten, that everyone has to pay for his own sins, there is no original sin, that to enter into heaven, you have to believe in the oneness of ALmighty God and all his prophets, who all preached the oneness of God, and follow the commandments, Not like modern day christians who hardly follow the commandments, you will notice that muslims on the whole obey the commandments of Almighty God and dont take our religion as a pasttime. I urgeyou to read the holy Quran, the last revelation of Almighty God, confirming the gospel given to jesus and the psalms and the torah, it is available online in english

Answer 5

Not true, in Matthew 22:37 we are told to love God with all our minds, in 1 Peter 3:15 we are told to have a reason for our beliefs, and in Isaiah 1:18 God says he wants to reason with us. Anyone who proposes the idea that faith is blind or without reason has departed from true Christianity. I have studied the bible and used my reason to determine it's reliability, and I am satisfied. I would not want to base my hope on a lie. Try reading books by Lee Strobel, he also used reason, as did c.s lewis.

Answer 6

god EXPECTS you to use your intellect; it is not there for nothing!
it wd be a sin not to!
but faith and reason are 2 different things. faith is belief in something that even an aetheist cannot prove or disprove.
it is a gift from god.
reason is the use of intellect to discern things that can be ultimately be proved or disproved or from which ideas can be drawn using what we know to be true.
in the case of the catholic church, it DEMANDS that we use reason as one of the gifts of god to deepen our faith. the catholic church, at least, only asks one to accept things that have been spoken of ex cathedra - when the pope is not merely advising or exhorting but actually speaking INFALLIABLY (w/o failing), and this is very rare!
also, catholics are asked to accept as articles of faith (not reason) the few basic tenants of the church: that jesus is the son of god, born of virgin mary, was resurrected, died for our sins, ascended into heaven...)
the rest is up to our conscience! people are not supposed to be sheep - we are made in god's image, remember. some of the greatest intellects the world has ever seen - such as st thomas more, st ignatius, etc - have questioned. 'doubting' thomas of the gospel questioned.
jesus himself, on the cross, questioned!
so you are in good company. keep it up and never stop questioning. this is how to deepen your faith.

Answer 7

It does seem contradictory to created minds that are interested in learning the facts, provide them with an overwhelming amount of evidence against creation, and none for other events, just to condemn them.

Edit
It may not be a questioning mind but one that is objective in evaluating evidence.

Answer 8

Actually , It is not just blind faith. As my pastor once said, " There is 2 tickets to get into heaven, one is faith and one is deeds. You need both." Because if you know the truth and yet do not change your life, you are fooling yourself. God gave us a seed in our heart. One that knows right from wrong and knows God is out there. Questioning is searching for Him. But when you ask others on here, Many will try to throw in their beliefs... I ask that you choose wisely what you choose to "believe" and those you don't.

"I [Jesus] is way the truth and the Life, no one gets to the father [God] exept through me." - I would highlight in red if I could for Jeus said this.

Answer 9

"Now the latter were more noble-minded than those in Thes·sa·lo·ni′ca, for they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so."
Acts 17 v 11

According to the bible God wants us to examine and question everything to ensure that it is the truth. Don't forget that all lies are from Satan.

Answer 10

I think there are some questions that can't be answered with just the Bible. Not to get me wrong, the Bible defines good and bad and answers millions of questions that one may have. Sometimes if we pick up the Bible and just start reading we might get the answers that we need. I know as a Christian i am constantly wondering things. But i still have tons of questions to ask God when i get to Heaven one day!!

Answer 11

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11)

Ask, seek, knock,....Mathew 7

He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love Him AND SHOW MYSELF TO HIM. John 14

God's Spirit leads us into the knowledge of all truth, so why not question the reason for it all? Seems to me he would be the one with the best answers. How else will you be "certain", unless you know for yourself?

He who belongs to God hears what God says. John 8

You heard God when He told you your request that took you away from Him was not any good, but He did it anyway.....