Why We Question Everything

To seek or to ask why we question everything

"Why do we question everything?" is a complex question that defies the wisest human being's ability, to come up with the perfect answer. There are many answers to this question. At best, each one of us can only respond from the direction of our personal perception. In other words, why I question everything, might be different than why you question everything.

The word quaerere means to seek or to ask. (1)

Realistically, one must ask what it is that a person seeks or asks about.

To that question, one has to respond, the all inclusive 'everything'. It suggests that there is a reason behind seeking or asking. When seeking something or asking about something, what is the ultimate goal? Perhaps in some manner, it has not yet been defined and still begs definition.

Take this one, giant step further. What one seeks or asks about is knowledge, but it would appear that knowledge about everything is unattainable. Thus, by its very nature, it seems that this is an impossible quest.

Going one step higher, beyond the human realm into the divine realm of thought, one finds that the impossible becomes the possible.

What does this mean to be those who seek and those who ask?

The Bible promises that if we seek, we shall find and if we ask, it shall be given. Matthew 7:7

This is why we question inquire in the realm of faith.

At the same time, everyone knows that if they continue to seek knowledge about something or ask questions about some something, they will find answers. Even human beings, who demonstrate absolutely no faith of any kind have that innate knowledge.

The human mind is amazing, because it does not necessarily require faith to find answers. It requires faith to find answers, on a higher plane.

Perhaps those who seek answers in the divine realm, from a faith perspective, are more likely to encounter higher truths. Those who deny faith may not be able to uncover those truths. There is truth on the human level, as well as higher truth, on the divine level.

Perhaps the person lacking faith can seek and find truth up to a degree, but when it is higher truth, it enters into the realm of revelation, as opposed to mere knowledge on a human plane of existence.

So, as human beings, we can seek and know that we will find. We also know that we can ask and know that we can receive, even on a purely, human plane.

We seek and find, ask and receive, simply because we can.

Mankind is only as limited as his individual and collective, human perception. If he makes an active choice to seek and find, ask and receive on a human plane, knowledge on that plane is what he is limited to in terms of actual discovery.

If he makes an active decision to seek and find truth on a divine plane, it will result in an encounter with the divine. Asking and expecting to receive on a divine plane of existence, opens that realm

We ask questions and rightly so. We should be asking questions. The real question is whether or not we are asking the right questions about everything.

One must ask if there is a relationship between knowledge and understanding of God or the divine.

There are different levels of knowledge can be accessed, like the stairs on a stairway. The bottom of the stairway of knowledge would be accessed by those who are not aware of any concept of God or the divine. The next step could be accessed by those who take an atheistic stand and deny God. The agnostics might be able to access knowledge that is one step higher, by allowing the possibility that God may exist.

A higher step of knowledge might be accessible to those who believe in the existence of God. The next step of knowledge would be for those who believe in Jesus, as His Son. The top step or the highest knowledge would be accessed by those, who are aware of and acknowledge the work of God's Holy Spirit.

All knowledge comes from God, but why would God want to give knowledge to someone who denies Him, His Son and His Holy Spirit? Perhaps God gives a degree of base knowledge to everyone. As they learn to relate to Him, He increases their degree of awareness and knowledge. The highest knowledge would be given to those who God knows will handle it rightly.

Why we question everything, reverts back to how God has created us, with the ability to seek and find knowledge.

(1) Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam Webster Inc., Springfield, Mass., 1983