
God’s Trouble Replying to Questions of Suffering in 2 Esdras (so far…)
In chapter 4, the Lord replies in so many words, that the Seer is not as smart as He is and should just shut up.

Room for Doubt: When it comes to trust, what are we looking for?
“It is not that some things are not worth saying about: “This is absolutely true.” It is that the posture that spoke most clearly to me, at least, was one of agnostic humility even while holding a firm belief, opinion, or set of convictions. There was, in other words, room for doubt. To me, this made the possibility of truth worth investigating, as a process of learning together, rather than a top-down, authoritarian mandate.”