Is It Wrong to Question What I’ve Been Taught?
.png)
For many believers, asking questions about what they’ve been taught feels dangerous. Maybe you were told that doubting church traditions is rebellious, or that questioning leadership is a sign of spiritual immaturity. But Scripture doesn’t tell us to follow blindly. In fact, God invites us to seek truth . Asking Questions Isn’t a Sign of Weak Faith—It’s Often the Beginning of Deeper Faith Throughout the Bible, we see people wrestling with God, asking questions, and being met with grace: The Bereans were praised for testing what Paul preached by searching the Scriptures daily (Acts 17:11). Job poured out his confusion and pain to God. Mary , when told she would bear the Messiah, didn’t sin when she asked, “How can this be?” God is not threatened by sincere questions. In fact, asking good questions is a sign that you want to build your faith on solid ground— not tradition, not assumptions, but truth. Why We Struggle to Ask Many of us were raised in environments where t...