I think there's a tendency to confuse curiosity about God with a genuine wonder about God. Curiosity is purely cerebral - it involves searching out and consuming knowledge. Whereas wonder is an overwhelming feeling of admiration. Of course both an increasing knowledge about God and admiration for God are involved in spiritual growth and transformation, but the two are definitely not the same.
Jeremy Bennett at Illuminated Mind says this about curiosity:
Curiosity is over-valued in our society, and one of the top causes of distraction in our increasingly information-saturated world.
Mind you, I’m not completely opposed to curiosity. Children are curious about the world, and that’s usually a good thing! Indeed. What I am proposing, however, is a proper understanding of curiosity; what it is useful for, and some things that it is not useful for.
We are, in fact, multi-dimensional beings. This has been my experience. We have a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspect to ourselves, and so on.
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