According to the cliché, there are no such things as stupid questions. Don’t you believe it. Asking the right question is central to the art of being educated. In the scientific process, we call it forming a good hypothesis. Since there are such things as, “good questions”, we need an adjective to describe the other (not so good) questions. If “stupid” is not acceptable, we need to find a politically correct synonym.
In recent personal trials, two questions stand out: “God, why?” and, “Where are you, God?” They seem related, almost restatements of the same idea, originating from a common place in the human soul. Yet I maintain that one question is “good” and the other one “stupid”.
Only from the human side are the questions similar; from the divine side they are different as night and day. One usually can be answered with an intelligible response, the other requires a lengthy preparation before we could comprehend. As we grow in our relationship with the Father, we should have the intuition to ask the type of question that He would be pleased to answer directly. God may answer the “why” question, but the answer is often interpreted as jibberish.
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I wonder if posing those questions make sense at all; whether those are meaningful questions or not is not a matter I can stand for with a straight face in either case. Any question is short of wits beyond certain context / cumulated knowledge. Human context and (asymptotic) knowledge, including that which helps connect data to infer additional knowledge, falls way below what ought to be known out there. In an absolute sense, no question is good. In a relative sense, well - anyone is entitled to pose a question as the ones who may grade it as good or otherwise, are also limited. Who can handle the Truth? rm
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