(A parable, half serious, just a sketch)
Zara, labeled by reputation "Skeptic", showed up to town one day, took up residence in a travellers' house.
The Inquisitor questioned him over tea one morning:
Is Zara a believer in the Almighty?
Of course.
The Inquisitor, half expecting a negative, continued searching for the skepticism,
parlayed some doctrine, an interpretation of Scripture.
Zara:
Scripture is axiomatically truth.
Yet the interpretations are always interpretations of men, men who are axiomatically flawed,
of limited intellect, intrinsically not equal to the complete interpretation of scripture.
This is not to say that interpretations are without merit,
for interpretations that have value approach the truth asymptotically.
A corollary is that interpretations are not arbitrarily true or false;
interpretations are not equally flawed.
Some approach substantially nearer the ineffible truth than others.
Skepticism therefore is not skepticism of the axiomatically given.
Scripture is axiomatically given Truth, but its meaning is divine and ineffible, hardly accessible to man, but through interpretation.
Divinely inspired exegesis may approach this Truth.
And yet the appropriate attitude to a given man's interpretation of Scripture is Skepticism.
Certainly this interpretation at best approaches somewhat the Truth.
At worst it's a destructive illusion, or lie.
Skepticism, negative theology, is thus a critically important part of spiritual hygiene.
Another way to approach the same idea:
Scripture condemns idolatry, the worship of human constructions.
In ancient times, men constructed with their hands, while their minds were naive and innocent.
In modern times by contrast a man's hands are idle, while his mind is frantically constructing this or that idea; he makes more more with his intellect than with his hands.
When a modern man approaches a religion therefore, he absorbs various intellectual ideas, the constructions of other men, and proceeds to modify them, creating his own constructions, which he thereupon worships. These ideas of the Divine and Almighty, that he has created. This is clearly and obviously idolatry.
How to smash such idols?
By introspection and active destruction of intellectual ideas of the Almighty. All of this is surely not to say that the Almighty and Divine does not exist, it is to say that modern man apprehends Him not, but instead engages with the objects of his intellect. The scriptural alarms against idolotry are not therefore obsolete, they are for all time, ours more than any.
The Inquisitor reflected for a moment and without hesitation answered his solution to Zara's paradoxes:
Faith. Will, and Faith, together, can smash through the limits of the intellect, and approach directly the direct reality of the Divine Almighty without intercession of the pedestrian, dualism-hobbled intellect.
Zara agreed and also mentioned that there were certain plants,
existing naturally, that did appear to have the effect of pulling even a modern human through and past his intellect.
This offers a direct contact with the Divine Almighty, for a limited time.
Silly sketch,
The name Zara is a take off Zarathustra, though this is just to adopt the atmosphere.
No Zara's position is not mine. For one thing, I don't take scripture as axiomatic without hedge or reservation. Something like that, but simultaneously I apply historiography critically... Elaboration another time...
This was mostly just to make a couple of points about how skpeticism would be should be implemented even in a person who was fully subscribed to dogmatic theology, unquestioned adherence to scripture.
The two main points are (1) Scripture can't mean anything tangibly until a man interprets it and gives it meaning. (2) Modern man constructs chiefly with his mind; by consequence, the average neurotic religious man worships an idol constructed in his mind. Harsh measures in introspection are required to clean these idols out. Psychedelics can offer temporary reprieve, but ultimately skepticism and negative theology are required for sustained spiritual hygiene in such matters.
These ideas don't apply to me, I'm in somewhat different position than the general subject mentioned here. Just for illustration of the ideas.