Years ago (that is: years+ ago), I - when a toddler - used to incessantly ask my grandfather (on my mother's side of the family): "Why?"

WHY? Why? Why this? Why that? Why Why Why . . . ad nauseum.

I could not quite understand at the time why Grandpa seemed kind of irritated by that. He called me his WhyBoy.

Well, I was a budding scientist. "Inquiring minds want to know."

Sometimes.

Often an over-use of the interrogative "Why?" is not a desire to encumber and burden onesself with an extensive and exhaustive two-or-three-hour techical dissertation using long Latin linguistics on the intricate and interrelated depths of details . . . but instead is actually a form of froward rebellion and diabolical desire to not accept plain truth and facts as they simply are.

John 9:26 [The obstinate pharisees] said to [the man born blind who now saw]: "What did He do to you? HOW did He open your eyes?

How?

Does it matter?

What good would that do if they knew the intricate supernatural or microbiological mechanisms involving "how?" Did the pharisees want to detect if Christ was a magician, doing tricks of illusion, so they could accuse him of being an occultist? Did they pursue it to discover if this situation was a case of mistaken identity?

John 9:1 As He passed by, He saw a [Jewish?] man blind from his birth.
2 And His disciples [probably-of-Jewish lineage] asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his [probably-of-Jewish-lineage] parents, that he was born blind?"
3 [THE Master-Jew] Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.
4 We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
6 As He said this, He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay,
7 saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Some said, "It is he"; others said, "No, but he is like him." He said, "I am the man."
10 They said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"
11 He answered, "The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."
12 They said to him, "Where is He?" He said, "I do not know."
13 They [tattle-tailers] brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
14 Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15 The Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."
16 Some of the pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath." But others [of the Pharisees] said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was a division among them.
17 So they again said to the blind man, "What do you say about Him, since He has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
18 "The" ["The?" How about instead: some?] Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight,
19 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"
20 His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
21 but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself."
22 His parents said this because they feared "the" jews, for "the" jews had already agreed that if any one should confess Him to be Christ, he/she? was to be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age, ask him."
24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner."
25 He answered, "Whether [the guy clearly was not a dogmatically-dishonest or presumptive agnostic, but instead an honest reporter in the process of gaining knowledge] He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see."
26 They said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
27 He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you too want to become his disciples?" [Good answer to an arguably-stupid-and-asinine question]
28 And they reviled him, saying, "You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. [Oh sure]
29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He comes from."
30 The man answered, "Why, this is a marvel! You do not know where He comes from, and yet He opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does His will, God listens to him.
32 Never since the world began has it been heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, He could do nothing."
34 They answered him, "You were born in utter sin [So were you, a-holes], and would you teach us?" And they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had threw him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
36 He answered, "And who is He, sir, that I may believe in Him?"
37 Jesus said to him, "You have seen Him, and it is He who speaks to you."
38 He said, "Lord, I believe"; and he worshiped Him.
39 Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."
40 Some of the pharisees near Him heard this, and they said to Him, "Are we also blind?"
41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.

Would it have been justifiable for Lucifer-turned-Satan and his conspiring angels-turned-demons, plus justifable for Eve and Adam (and currently justifiable for us now) to have asked, or ask:

"Why didn't you TELL me (or us) that it was going to be this bad if I (or we) disobeyed you with that Forbidden-Fruit thing? Shouldn't you have given me (or us) more of a dire warning, and been more persistent in giving it to us?

Well, consider the limited-sized signs hanging on the fence surrounding some power substation along the highway or in the neighborhood. The signs can only be so big. Must they be flashing orange or pink or red strobelights to be seen and understood? Required it is for there to be vicious Doberman or German Shepherd attack dogs violently snarling? Must the ammoral and not immoral benign signs themselves move themselves out and spit or slap you in the face or kick you in the shins if you venture too closely in their inanimate benevolent endeavor to warn you to not crawl over the fence and touch the terminals of some large high-voltage transformer with the two-foot-long insulators sticking out from it?

Well, someone might say: "It's obvious the danger, because most everyone already has learned and thus knows full well about what electricity is, can do, how it is generated, high-powered transformers, crackling transmission lines, big sparks, and all of that . . . but what about deliberately and defiantly disobeying any one of God's moral laws? Where is the previous instruction and heads-up about the horrible consequences of doing such?"

Hello?

Is it not quite obvious what kind of a Creator-God we are involved with? Begin to think about even a very tiny part of the overwhelming awesomeness of what He has created around us . . . the phenomenal details of it all . . . the immenseness of it all . . . but please stop before you become completely paralyzed in overwhelmed catatonic stupor doing so.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not He your Father [THE Holy Father], who created you, who made you and established you?
Psalm 89:12 The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
Psalm 104:30 When you send out your Spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.
Psalm 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For He commanded and they were created.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of His might, and because He is strong in power, not one is missing.
Isaiah 42:5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out Earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Isaiah 45:12 "I made Earth, and created mankind upon it; it was my hands which stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host."
Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God!), who formed Earth and made it (He established it; He did not create it a chaos [of random evolutionary chance], He formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Isaiah 48:7 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them."
Isaiah 54:16 "Hey, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy."

Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Romans 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
Romans 1:20 Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
Romans 1:21 for although they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
Romans 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools...

Colossians 1:16 for in Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities . . . all things were created through Him and for Him.
Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Hebrews 1:2 but in these last days [God] has spoken to us by [His] Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world.
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the world was created by The Word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.

Revelation 4:11 "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for [not imaginary UFO alien beings] you did create all things, and by your will they existed and were created."
Revelation 10:6 and swore by Him who lives forever, who created heaven and what is in it, Earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there should be no more delay...

A while ago, my wife and I were riding in a car in southeastern Minnesota, and her brother was driving. The wife asked her brother: "Why did you go this way when the other way is shorter." Jon's witty (but my wife considered it 'rude') response was: "Because I can."

I thought it kind of cute, albeit sarcastic.

Sometime later, thinking about it, I came up with an addition to the phrase: "Because I can."

Here it is, in response to a query (the wife likes the word "question" instead used) of: "WHY are you doing what you can?":

"Because I WANT to do what I can."

I simply want to do what I can.

End of line. End of subject. That's it. That's all there is to say. What else can be asked? New topic, please.

God did what He could because He wanted to. That's the end of the matter. No more can nor should be asked or said.

Again, when I was under my Dad's authority in his family, and as a boy, I would sometimes ask Dad: "Why" (he wanted me to do this or that).

His authoritative (and understandable) retort was: "Because I SAID so." And that was it. NO more questions.

His remark was not necessarily sinful impatience. Certainly not child abuse. Why did he have to bow to my demand to give me a detailed answer of why he wanted me to do this or that? He probably, and gratefully, did not have the time to elaborate. Nor was he required to, under the circumstances.

So me asking "Why?" under those circumstances turned out to be completely irrelevant. Kind of idiotic. It did not matter "why." It would not have done any good anyway to have be informed of "why." He knew best, under the circumstances, and my continuing to ask "Why" would then have turned out to be a sassy and arrogant expression of non-cooperative disobedient rebellion.

Romans 9:18 So then He has mercy upon whomever He wills, and He hardens the heart of whomever He wills.
19 You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?"
20 But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?"
21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?
22 What if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make known His power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,
23 in order to make known the riches of His glory for the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory,
24 even us whom He has called [we are NOT "self-appointed" - as the Mpls Star-Tribune would mis-accused us], not from the Jews only but also from the nations?