If I Knew Too Much

[LOSTONE]

This would be one of my biggest fears in my Christian faith. If I knew too much. Sounds stupid right? I know, but give me a minute and I’ll try and clarify what I mean.

I don’t mean I want to be stupid with in my own Christian faith. Not at all. I want to explore, learn, grow and share my faith. However, I am human. Human brain with the primitive limitations. I am okay with this. I can go without knowing more than what my brain was ever designed to know.

I have had a moment after I became a Christian where I wanted to know everything. I mean, why this and why that and how about this and because of that. So many, many questions I wanted ask and find answers to. Understand and discover the truth on so many things with in my faith and scriptures. I think this might be normal for alot of Christians, especial right after becoming a Christian. The excitement and joy that drives the desire to know more and more. It’s normal and perfectly okay.

However, the reality as I have discovered for myself is that I will never know it all or have all my questions answered. It’s just the way it is for me. All my heart’s desires to learn and know and be can not give me all the answers and knowledge I seek. Just not going to happen. Could be apart of the fact that I have a human brain that is limited in it’s own primitive nature. So even if I had the full scope of knowledge, would my brain really grasp all of it correctly? Probably, almost guaranteed not. Plus, If I recall right, there is scripture that tells us that will not know everything until we get to heaven. At such time, all will be revealed to us. So why would I try to get something that is clearly not going to be given to me right now. Like banging my head on a wall, it might be more problematic for me to seek more than what I can find at this time. This is not to say that I want to stop seeking or learning or even asking questions. I don’t. I love learning and sharing what I have learned. I am just saying that I have to accept that I have learning limits while I am on earth and I need to be okay with that. I am okay with that. I can be at peace with not knowing all I want and still going forward in the excitement and joy of my faith.

Another example on this would be my car. I drive my car. I know the basics on how to operate it. From driving it to putting gas and air in it to checking the fluids and even batteries. However, I pop the hood and wow...what the bleep is all that stuff and how does all that make my car work? No clue. I am not mechanic or electronic expert. I have no clue to the wires and tubes and strange do dads and all. But never the less, I still get in my car and go forward to where I want to and need to and I do it with as much enjoyment as I can. Same with my faith. I don’t understand all of it, but enough to know how to move forward with it to where I want and need to go and can enjoy the journey forward.

So for me, I don’t want to know too much. I want to be at peace with what I know and keep my excitement and joy in my faith and journey. Some things are best left unknown to me and only known to the one who has the true control and wisdom. Anyways...this is just another rambling post of mine. If you read it, the pain you feel right now is called a head ache. Sorry.

[LOSTONE]

O ye, I am also a 42 yr. old guy. So knowing things beyond duct tape and stain t-shirts is a wee bit hard for me so I have my learning limits. Just saying it as I see myself. Gotta go, I see donuts!!!

[thesometimesaint]

It is unlikely that in this life we will know everything, We are required to learn as much as we cam.

[Boanerges]

I find the more I learn, the less I know. In the end I think all we are really asked to do is believe in Christ. That doesn't mean we don't need baptism, etc., because if we do really believe in Christ we will do what we think we need to in order to get eternal life. I am content to believe.

[ERayR]

I don’t mean I want to be stupid with in my own Christian faith. Not at all. I want to explore, learn, grow and share my faith. However, I am human. Human brain with the primitive limitations. I am okay with this. I can go without knowing more than what my brain was ever designed to know.

 

Being a child of and from the family of God your brain was designed with the capacity to be like your (heavenly) parents.  You may be surprised at what curiosity, study and prayerful reflection can do for you. 

[Ahab]

No problem with going at your own pace but I wouldn't recommend choosing to forever remain limited in what you know. I know it's going to take me a LONG time before I learn everything about everything that a being like us can possibly learn but I'm okay with it taking that long.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Ahab

[Freedom]

I learn as much as I can of whatever topic comes across my path and assume that everything I know is wrong so that I can always learn more. 

[The Nehor]

God likes honest and simple curiosity.

[Nofear]

So for me, I don’t want to know too much. I want to be at peace with what I know and keep my excitement and joy in my faith and journey. Some things are best left unknown to me and only known to the one who has the true control and wisdom. Anyways...this is just another rambling post of mine. If you read it, the pain you feel right now is called a head ache. Sorry.

 

Joseph Smith is reported to have said,

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me. And, Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

There are things that, given our personal character deficiencies and opinions, would be out of harmony with the order of heaven. Many of us, unfortunately, would judge the former as more valued than the latter. As such, God metes out gifts of knowledege only as we are able to bear them.