Why Did Jesus Ask So Many Questions?

General Faith
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He already knew the answers, yet He kept asking: “Who do you say I am?” “Do you want to be healed?” Maybe He wanted people to think out loud. What do you think His questions reveal about how He teaches us today?

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If you think about it all questions from God are rhetorical questions.

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Questions are a way of getting a person to realise and express just what they believe or know about something.

In evangelism or other discussions to ask.

                                   What do you believe about....?
Gets them to say what it is they believe and the follow up question.
                           What evidence do you have for that belief?
Exposes just how little evidence, reason and facts are behind what they believe and gives one the opertunity to show how reasonable, fact based and how historically accurate Christianity is.
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If you want to help someone understand something, you might get more interest by asking a question than making a statement or declaration. Asking a question gets people to engage their analytical processes to more fully consider a matter.

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What? Do you think first-century Jews didn’t form their conversation with questions? Aren’t questions just another way of communicating? Such as: “Shall the Judge of all the earth not do justice?” (Abraham). Didn’t David Kraemer comprehensively explain how Jewish culture makes declarations in the form of questions, when he wrote in: "Talmud Talk and Jewish Talk ", “Jewish conversation leads with questions, interrupts with objections, and is relentlessly argumentative.”? Wouldn’t we expect a first-century Jewish rabbi to speak in first-century forms and colloquialisms? Do not contemporary Yiddish patterns of speech not derive from the patterns of speech in the Talmud? Does not the Passover Seder not proceed through four questions, asked by the youngest child, which prompt the retelling of the story and set the stage for the evening’s rituals.? Shouldn’t we expect this form of cultural communication from Jesus?

If these questions kind-of set you back on your heels, and elicit a bit of a defensive response, then they did their job.

KP

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