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Lacey23:
Christians say you shouldn't question God on everything.

I disagreed with them because it is the way we learn. We learn by questioning and we learn by getting the answer. I can't just sit be very accepting of what I've been taught and leave it as it is. How do you learn without questioning God. I believe that Its OK to question because  either way, God can answer or not answer, but all in due time.  I always believed that if you feel confusion in your heart- you should keep on questioning by getting the answers that will lead to your peace in your heart. Kids learn from questioning and from experience too. It should be the same way for us. I learned so much from questioning God. i mean- when a question pops in my head, it gnaws me until i find the answer to the question and i get peace once i get it from God because God is in everything.

Am i wrong to question God? can u give me scriptures that shows that it is OK to question God or is it wrong to question God?

Please help?

sansmile:
Lacey,

From what i see it isn't God's word that you are questioning, but man made doctrines. What we do is ASK God for the truth, not question it when received!!
Because Him in us confirms the truth!!
That's my view.

God Bless
Sandie

skydreamers:
Hi Lacey,

I also do not think it is wrong to question.  Questioning, as you say, is part of seeking answers:

Proverbs 2:2-5
2  Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;
3  For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;
4  If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5  Then you will discern the fear of the LORD, And discover the knowledge of God.


Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD

When we humbly and sincerely come before the Lord looking for His truth at whatever cost, we are in the right condition to receive answers, Lord willing.  But there have also been times for me that I've cried out in frustration and anger, because I was too confused and the answer didn't come quick enough.  I have learned to wait on the Lord, be patient and in the quiet is usually when things are made clear.

The Lord does not want us to me lukewarm.  Be passionate in pursuing the truth.  It is better to be hot or cold than lukewarm.  If you stay passive and accept whatever is preached to you without your own digging and without asking questions...than you'll remain where you are, stagnant with little growth.

Revelation 3:15-16
15  'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot.
16  'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.


Luke 11:9-10
9  "And I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
10  "For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.

So keep asking, because without questions there are little answers...

Peace,
Diana

hillsbororiver:
Hi Lacey,

Sandie and Diana have given you some wise council, hopefully I can expand a bit.

The Roman church purposely kept bibles out of the hands of the "common" people so they could more easily teach the heresies that would give them the utmost power over the masses.

As a sidenote here is a small portion from Ray's Lake of Fire Part 7 http://bible-truths.com/lake7.html

And so it was Tyndale who accomplished this magical rhyme of Scriptures and yet stayed very precisely to the original Hebrew and Greek wording besides properly interpreting the meaning of thought. Of course, we all know, it was really God Himself Who intended the most popular version of His Word on earth, to have that special quality about it. Sadly, Tyndale translated only about twelve books in the Old Testament before the Church thought it necessary to burn him alive at the stake for making the Word of God available to the common people. We will learn more nasty little habits of the Church in the pages that follow.

In a sense that same thing is happening in many if not most of the denominations, just listen to the man (or woman) in the pulpit and don't concern yourself with challenging unscriptural doctrines, it is way over your head!  ???

However that is not what the bible teaches, over and over we are instructed to pray for understanding, seek Him, seek the treasure that is His Word, seek discernment, etc.

 Psa 119:2  Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

 Psa 119:4  Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

 Psa 119:5  O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
 
 Psa 119:6  Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

 Psa 119:12  Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

 Psa 119:15  I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

 Psa 119:18  Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

 Psa 119:19  I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

 Psa 119:73  Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may that I may learn thy commandments.

 Joh 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

His Peace and Wisdom to you,

Joe

PS

Psa 14:2  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

Pro 28:5  Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

YellowStone:
Hi Lacy and Diana, and Joe who posted while I was compiling this :)

I too believe that it is not wrong to question Scripture and of course God. Questions do not have to accusatory as in: "Tell me why God, ...." but rather inquiringly with a gentle spirit as in: "God please give me the strength and wisdom to disern your truth that I am yet unable to see."

Big difference. :)

We know we can ask, for Christ himself said:

Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.  

But we also know that we can ask wrongly, thatis with the wrong intent.

Jam 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.  

I was often told as a child: "Who are you to question God?" And my answer was always the same: "Truth needs no defense."

Besides, we are taught at an early age, if we don't understand something, then we must ask as to learn.

So Lacey, I agree with Diana, continue asking witha humble heart and I am sure understanding wil be given you. :)

Love In Christ Our Saviour,
Darren

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