Whooo Arrre Youu???
Being willing to question is good. It is often thought that going against foundations is a rebellion to be avoided, that straying from what you have been taught is a path that leads to danger. Christians often associate the fall of man with questioning God and eating the forbidden fruit. It is a misconception to believe that God doesn’t want you to ask why. Why is a good thing. It is usually what proceeds it or what accompanies the why that is the problem. As humans we are limited in our perspectives but we are also fallen and clouded in our every viewpoint. Our questions are often equipped with so much baggage, the answer is already predetermined in our minds. We are simply looking for a way to justify our position.
In fact God loves to disrupt our preconceived notions. It is only when our positions are shaken that we are able to hear His revelations of truth. We feel guilty questioning what comes natural to us, it goes contrary to all our instincts. This is exactly what He wants, for we can never trust in Him if we are trusting in ourselves. Sometimes this can be very confusing, because sometimes it is easy to confuse asking why with not trusting God. It is actually the opposite, trusting God to guide you and to reaffirm viewpoints helps us learn and grow closer to knowing God. Without repentance we are unable to believe. I am not referring to repentance as remorse or contrition, but as in changing one’s mind. If we are set in our views and trusting in what we see, we are willingly blocking what God reveals. We are unwittingly choosing not to believe.
There is actually only one sin that is unforgivable, and it is unbelief, or rejecting that Christ was the son of God, whose death and resurrection paid the full penalty for our sins so they we may have eternal life. Of course it is easy to see how a person that rejects God because of the shame of exposure makes bad decisions where the consequences lead to a spiraling effect that condemnation. It is more difficult to see how a person can be trapped in unfolding effects of good decisions. This person is walking by sight and not by faith exactly the same as the person who falls in the stereotypical lost category. Satan is the Prince of this world, and his realm is the temporal. When we walk by sight, all of our actions are building a sequence that solidifies unbelief, and firmly plants us in this world under his rule.
God’s most distinct quality is His holiness, this means He is unequal to anything else, He is set apart in every way. He would also like us to manifest this quality by setting ourselves apart from the temporal world. This doesn’t mean living in an arrogant bubble, but rather to avoid trusting in what we see. As we have said this is difficult because it our nature and our instinct, so to do this we must deny ourselves, and put our trust completely in Him. Walking by faith is a constant effort. We may attempt to use this faith as a foundation and settle back into our own perspectives. We need to be disrupted constantly so we are able to look to Him and not fall back on ourselves. This is why people hate to hear the truth, it convicts us. This why the controversial parts cannot be left out, we need to be convicted. God knows we will never see our need for Him if we are not knocked off of our foundation first. We will fail many, many times, but it is that initial trust, that first time we let go of our foundation and let Him replace it with His truth that changed our fate from the temporal to the eternal, from death to life, from the bonds of time to the freedom of eternity.
It is strange how much that Satan loves to mimic God. Dialectic thought that is so prevalent in this world is an imitation of Gods way of leading people to truth. I suppose that is why it is so brilliant and seemingly effective. Deriving order out of chaos makes use of a destabilized situation and uproots old ideas leaving a space for new ideas to be molded. The Marxist mentality is a cheap copy of Gods providence throughout history. Again we go back to the foundation of the idea. It is not change itself that is good any more than asking questions is bad. Faith is only as good as the object it is placed in, it really is what you believe in that is important not just the act of believing It happens that Gods attributes are absolute and eternal, and the changes promoted through the ideas in this world, the things seen, are only temporal. So simply put, putting our faith in this world, or ourselves, or anything in this universe, is something that will eventually fail no matter what, so it’s only hope is finding purpose in change itself. This is sold to us as growth or progress, and it’s ugliness is called duality.
I used to believe in balance. Duality made sense to me. I grew up fond of Alice in Wonderland, the absurd logic that also seemed very practical was attractive. I loved the questions it proposed, my favorite was when the caterpillar asked, “who are you?” To me this question spoke volumes, it was inevitably unanswerable and dismissed as irrelevant, but it pulled me to the bigger question of, “What is the purpose for anything? ” It seemed to call attention to the contradictions in all thought. This spiral effect of circular reasoning was very intriguing. It was this, “what’s the point?” that eventually opened the door to finding the true purpose in all things, which cannot exist without God. See all unbelief contradicts itself, it is dualism by nature. I now have learned that Alice in Wonderland is just a glorification of that dualism, and probably a lot of other esoteric things and should probably be avoided. However, I still like the way it gives itself away. I go back to the beginning and say, it is good to ask why. It is not bad to be curious. It goes both ways, asking why is the only way to find truth, but you have to be willing to believe a new perspective and one that probably is not the same as your own, but most importantly, you must consider your source. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit they did not fall because they dared to ask a question, Man fell because his heart filled with unbelief and instead of asking God why, He trusted in himself.
The Rabbit Hole 