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Do you think that always searching for answers to religious questions is a good thing? I keep thinking about doubting Thomas and how I should leave some things to faith. I’m especially talking about personal religious experience’s. What do you think? Tim
 
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Hello,
Do you think that always searching for answers to religious questions is a good thing? I keep thinking about doubting Thomas and how I should leave some things to faith. I’m especially talking about personal religious experience’s. What do you think? Tim
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Tim I some times leave the unexplained to God. I at times do ask God when I am not to sure of which way to go about a certain situation. The other day I was not sure about some accounts my wife brought into our new wedding The Lord gave me an answer straight away.
On other occasions He has just told me that I should not let the situations involve my life that they will unfold themself as time goes by.
God bless
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Granted, in my own search I have learned about the faith. I have also learned alot of the why and how’s in my life, but everytime I learn something ,my responsibility’s increase. Like there is a cost for knowledge. Reminds me of eaten from the tree of good and evil. Is it sometimes better to be blissfully unaware or are we called to always seek the truth? Does God hold accountable those who seek and find the answers they are looking for? Or is it just prideful to think we have been giving the answers and we should just trust? Tim
 
I find that faith and knowledge are complementary, and that one nearly always makes the other grow. Knowing God and having a relationship with God really requires both.

Remember that Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” So the pursuit of truth can actually lead us closer to Jesus. Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are Gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Bible repeatedly encourages us to pursue wisdom. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Church is constantly learning–not tearing down, but rather developing her beliefs. Personally, I think it would take me a lifetime to really know and understand just a fraction of the Church’s teachings–much less God! Nonetheless, I feel like I learn more about God everyday. And it only makes my faith and my desire to know Him greater!

A professor of mine said not long ago, quoting someone (don’t remember who), that a mystery is not something that is unknowable. Rather it is something that is infinitely knowable. The more we know about a mystery (such as God), the deeper the mystery becomes, the more we don’t know about it, the more there is to know, and the farther into it we are drawn. So we needn’t feel that the quest for knowledge is prideful or a symptom of doubt. Indeed, if one does go into it pridefully, one is going to be very humbled very quickly!

I think that’s what Heaven will be like–we’ll get to spend eternity getting to know God! Some people think that the Beatific Vision sounds dreadfully boring, but knowing God, I’m sure every moment will be extraordinary and breathtaking! Anything we can know about Him while we’re here is just a tiny atom, if that.

Wanting to know is only natural for a loving relationship such as each of us has with God. We want to know Him, and He wants to be known. Through knowledge, He draws us to Himself, and into Himself. I think it’s a beautiful thing, and it has radically changed my life! 🙂
 
Little one and Unexpected dawn,
Thanks for your responses. I’ve had such an explosive learning experience the last year and a half, sometimes it gets overwhelming. Tim
 
I hear you, Tim! Life has been an enormous learning experience for me as well in the last couple of years. Especially since my rejoining the Church nearly 2 years ago! 🙂 It can be bewildering. It can make life more complex, but also much richer.

Best of luck—you’re not alone! 🙂
 
I think that most people who convert or revert have a time in which they can’t get enough of the truth! You read and read and question and question until you think you’ll never stop doing it. Then one day, out of the blue, you seem to come to a saturation point with all the asking and reading. A calm comes over you and you realize that although you still have plenty to learn, that it’s not important that you go on feverishly reading and searching. You’ve come to a point at which so much has fallen into place in your heart and mind that it’s no longer necessary. It’s at that point you assimilate what you’ve learned and can take in new things as they come up instead of having to seek them out. At least, that was my experience. Does it make sense/help?
 
Yes , I’m a revert from non-practising. My wife says I may never know the reason for some things and I should leave it up to God. Tim
 
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