Questioning God

Hildegard of Bingen has some interesting things to say about questions of faith -

"In these struggles, the question arises: Is there a God or not.  The answer of this question comes to people from the Holy Spirit, namely that there is a God who created you and who also redeemed you.  As long as the question and the answer is in the person, the virtue of God will not be out of the person because repentance clings to this question and answer.  However when the question is not in a person, then neither is the answer of the Holy Spirit because such a person drives the gift of God out from himself or herself."

My experience is similar.  It's not the questions of faith that are caustic.  The only damage that is done to the soul is in the leap of faith one makes to conclude there is no God.  For thus one loses also, as Hildegard observes, the "question of repentance" as well, and puts oneself on a spiritual path that leads downward.