Is it an advantage or a disadvantage to be skeptical of religion in general and your own religion in particular Why?

Answer 1

Personally I would consider it an advantage as men have added much 'religion' of which God does not approve. Thus, if we learn to think for ourselves then we can see what pleases God and what doesn't. God Himself is not at all threatened by genuine questioning. In fact He made our brain and encourages us to use it.

The trouble also with some skepticism is it is selectively applied. People only want to be skeptical of The Bible and yet not skeptical of all the mis-quotes, not skeptical of the anti-Biblical conclusions and the non-evidence on which they are based and not prepared to be skeptical of numerous false arguments that are regularly used.

If one is a genuine free-thinker then one will see through all false arguments, wherever they come from and will arrive at the truth. The problem is, not many wish to do this as they are conditioned to be skeptical of ever finding what Francis Schaeffer called 'true truth.' Or even worse they are selectively skeptical of some truth and not of other claims to truth.

Being skeptical of my own religion, in the light of having an objective standard from which to judge all things, the infallible Bible, has given me the opportunity to discover a lot more both about the Bible itself in terms of its objective truths and of the many unnecessary or optional additions made by men. Some of these are helpful, others are downright disasters.