The First Step in Learning about God

In his book "The Road Less Traveled", Dr. M. Scott Peck writes "We begin by distrusting what we already believe, by actively seeking the threatening and unfamiliar, by deliberately challenging the validity of what we have previously been taught and hold dear. The path to holiness lies through questioning everything." ... To be vital, to be the best of which we are capable, our religion must be a wholly personal one, forged entirely through the fire of our questioning, and doubting in the crucible of our own experience of reality."

Dr. Peck goes on to quote Alan Jones who wrote "Journey into Christ" in 1977. "... when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God."

When it comes to learning something new, I have often said that the first step is to "unlearn" what we think we already know. A friend of mine used the phrase that "we need to suspend disbelief".

We can never learn anything if we think we already have the answer.