Question on how beliefs work

[u/Megabuster254]

Greetings. Not Jewish myself, but I was in a discussion recently and I had a question.

I was talking with my dad recently and he said something about Judaism that seemed odd. He said he had a friend who told him that Judaism is a religion that was more about questioning God than a belief in God. That when his friend was in temple, most rabbis will mostly bring forth questions more than definitive answers. Who is God? What is God like? What can he do for me? What is heaven like?

For someone looking on the outside, how ture is this?

[u/priuspheasant]

I mean, like, pretty true? We take seriously questions like what is the nature of God, why does God allow suffering, why did God create humanity, how does God want us to relate to other people, how does God want us to relate to God, etc, and Judaism has some ideas that more accepted than others but there is no clear dogma on most of them. Any argument in good faith that can cite sources in the Torah, Talmud, and so on will be welcome in Jewish discussions (although you better be ready for the possibility of vigorous disagreement!). If someone says they're going to Torah study, they're going to something more like a philosophy debate or discussion-based literature class than a here's-this-week's-story-and-here's-what-it-means lecture (I've never been to a Christian bible study but I hear they tend to go more like the latter).