notsolostsoul Posted May 20, 2017 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 38 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 419 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 204 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/07/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted May 20, 2017 Is it wrong to question God? We are told we should question the Spirits, does this include God's? If I should not question God how am I to get to really know him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 I question God all the time. I am constantly looking for answers to a variety of questions. I think that's how we grow. Knock and the door will be opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted May 20, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.80 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted May 20, 2017 We should not question God unless we are genuinely interested in His answer. He may not answer the question the way we want Him to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 953 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,587 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,056 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted May 22, 2017 On 5/20/2017 at 1:46 AM, notsolostsoul said: Is it wrong to question God? We are told we should question the Spirits, does this include God's? If I should not question God how am I to get to really know him? Guess it depends on what is meant by questioning God? Isaiah 1 tells of reasoning with God. Job 2 tells us of accepting bad as well as good from God and who are we to question His authority. God has indeed foreknown and predestined those that are His. To question, are we his, might be a really wise thing to do, but to question God as to His authority, might lead to many a hard lesson for one to learn; or worse yet to suffer for having tried to deny God His sovereignty. It is best to start with a healthy fear and respect of His total sovereignty. Wish I had much sooner than I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notsolostsoul Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 38 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 419 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 204 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/07/2017 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Neighbor said: Guess it depends on what is meant by questioning God? Isaiah 1 tells of reasoning with God. Job 2 tells us of accepting bad as well as good from God and who are we to question His authority. God has indeed foreknown and predestined those that are His. To question, are we his, might be a really wise thing to do, but to question God as to His authority, might lead to many a hard lesson for one to learn; or worse yet to suffer for having tried to deny God His sovereignty. It is best to start with a healthy fear and respect of His total sovereignty. Wish I had much sooner than I did. Oh not to question his authority, but to question him to get to know him. Along of the lines of: God what is fair? What is right? Why do good people suffer? Things like that. Questions to get to understand and know him better. Thank you! Edited May 22, 2017 by notsolostsoul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 0 Topic Count: 905 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 9,646 Content Per Day: 2.02 Reputation: 5,832 Days Won: 9 Joined: 04/07/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted May 22, 2017 On 5/20/2017 at 0:46 AM, notsolostsoul said: Is it wrong to question God? We are told we should question the Spirits, does this include God's? If I should not question God how am I to get to really know him? Question the spirits (or test / try them) is to find out IF they are from God or not (including the Holy Spirit who is God). This is not to question God once you've established it's actually him. But... God is not so thin skinned (so to speak) to get his feelings hurt by our inability to temporarily (or permanently on lesser issues) get our intelligence on board with his. (which is what disagreeing with God actually is)... reality / truth / fact are on his side... Be honest with God. He already knows anyway. 99.99% of confession to God our sins is being honest with God about what he already knows... and in so doing, we are honest with ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notsolostsoul Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 38 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 419 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 204 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/07/2017 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, JohnD said: Question the spirits (or test / try them) is to find out IF they are from God or not (including the Holy Spirit who is God). This is not to question God once you've established it's actually him. But... God is not so thin skinned (so to speak) to get his feelings hurt by our inability to temporarily (or permanently on lesser issues) get our intelligence on board with his. (which is what disagreeing with God actually is)... reality / truth / fact are on his side... Be honest with God. He already knows anyway. 99.99% of confession to God our sins is being honest with God about what he already knows... and in so doing, we are honest with ourselves. Thank you! I agreed with this 100. I have even brought my anger to him along with the shame after and he has shown me in scripture where I wasn't the first and that he understands. He is definitely patient with me and I am definitely handful, as well as hard headed but he still works with me. I am truly Grateful. Thank you agian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 0 Topic Count: 905 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 9,646 Content Per Day: 2.02 Reputation: 5,832 Days Won: 9 Joined: 04/07/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted May 22, 2017 6 minutes ago, notsolostsoul said: Thank you! I agreed with this 100. I have even brought my anger to him along with the shame after and he has shown me in scripture where I wasn't the first and that he understands. He is definitely patient with me and I am definitely handful, as well as hard headed but he still works with me. I am truly Grateful. Thank you agian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyn C Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 30 Topic Count: 267 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 13,205 Content Per Day: 3.49 Reputation: 8,497 Days Won: 12 Joined: 12/21/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/06/1947 Share Posted May 22, 2017 3 hours ago, notsolostsoul said: Oh not to question his authority, but to question him to get to know him. Along of the lines of: God what is fair? What is right? Why do good people suffer? Things like that. Questions to get to understand and know him better. Thank you! Hi notsolostsoul, I believe you should be asking God lots of questions. We are the students and He is our teacher. I like to think of us being in `the school of the Spirit.` When I was younger I used to write in my books, `the school of the Holy Spirit.` I would write a key phrase that was highlighted for me in my reading, & scriptures relating, I would write comments on thoughts I had & perhaps a song that came to mind, etc. then over the months and years I would notice some topics emerging and realised that God was teaching me (us) and that we need to pay more attention to what His topic is and not always us leading the questions, (if you know what I mean). all the best, Marilyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted May 22, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 953 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,587 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,056 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) 13 hours ago, notsolostsoul said: Oh not to question his authority, but to question him to get to know him. Along of the lines of: God what is fair? What is right? Why do good people suffer? Things like that. Questions to get to understand and know him better. Thank you! Hi, Yes I believe I understand the framing of your initial post. I have been addressing in general the subject. BUT, do I personally ask God to be fair? I don't think that would be wise for me at least. I do not want fair, for if I am to get what I deserve I am in major eternal trouble. More than trouble, I am doomed. So fair is not a concern of mine, instead I celebrate in deep appreciation that God is not fair He is perfect, and cannot, will not abide flaw nor sin, period. And yet, He alone has reconciled who He will to Him so that I personally may be certain in my own hope of spending eternity to come with Him, As saint in Jesus the Christ. So fair? No siree, don't give me fair! Nor would I want to demand, nor question of God His fairness with anyone else either. For all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. No one, none are perfect, which is His Holy standard, perfection only. I accept that God will not and in fact cannot abide anything short of perfection for He is Glory itself, perfection. I am in awe that He has solution at hand in Himself to reconcile the issue of my being a sin filled soul and corrupted body, made acceptable in His sight by His sacrifice his paying the deficiency that is me.-by, The Holy Blood of Christ Jesus being shed in my own place. Amazing! So no I will not question God of His fairness, His perfection. I will simply be humble and trembling in my appreciation beyond the capacity of my words that it is so. And how do I know this?- God took special care for me to know, as I was a hardhead, a tough case, a resister of His word, His love, His Holiness. Yet, He turned me about in a near twinkling, a whirl that could only be of God and of God alone. Yes I do have the Holy Spirit, God within me. I see evidence of it in my sucesses and my awful failures. He is within. I get scolded, I suffer, and yet I am lifted to highs beyond any known to me in any other thing of life. May you have joy in our Lord and satisfaction in His Glory, appreciating the awesomeness that leads to questions- can this be, can it be so Glorious that it need not be fair, in fact it can't be. For fair would not be miraculous at all, it would only be adherence to the standard of fallen man in his world of relativity of good versus evil, where man judges if there is enough good to merit out weighing the evil within. God surpasses all that. He totally obliterates it demanding by His nature perfection and then perfecting His own in His sight by the shed blood of Jesus washing the saints white as snow. Edited May 22, 2017 by Neighbor SOME CORRECTING OF PUNCTUATION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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