Simple Answers?

Here's something I noticed today:

A false doctrine has an answer for everything superficial but nothing profound.

In contrasting cults like the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons to orthodox, Biblical Christianity, the former ones seem to always have a simple (simplistic?) answer for almost anything. It usually fits into a single, comprehensive, and often tantalizing agenda or conspiracy theory. But there are two problems. First, critical and probing questions are not often answered but deflected or ignored. The faithful shouldn't ask those questions and they just have to accept it contrary to evidence and logic and experience. Second, consistency is a problem. Both the JWs and Mormons have quite a history of contradicting themselves on major points of doctrine and revelation. It's shocking.

Now I'll grant that you can find elements of the church that are all over the map as well (I'm not about to stand by the bizarre positions of the medieval church or some modern denominations). But Biblical Christianity is recognizably consistent throughout history. Biblical Christianity can be scrutinized and examined and does not need to be amended or modified for each generation.

It also doesn't need to hide information from anyone, inside or outside of the faith. Biblical Christianity is transparent and open to scrutiny (there's an entire field of study on how to answer objections and tough questions called apologetics). When a religion resists scrutiny, this ought to be a red flag.

Biblical Christianity also recognizes the limits to human knowledge. Our God is infinite. Our minds are not. If our minds are big enough to fully understand God, then either he's not really God or we are.