Trick(Bad) Questions

Ever wonder why philosophers are so long-winded, here you go

I have engineering student friends who periodically ask me questions about the faith. Attempting to respond as comprehensively and instructively as possible, I may typically provide a longer-than-expected answer. In one such conversation, one of them retorts something to the effect of, "See that's the problem with theology majors, you ask them a question and they give the longest answer and don't answer the question". The problem though is often the reality a question investigates cannot be put in the terms or expectations of the question. For example, when people ask how salvation happens and the questions asked is either faith or works, the truth is it is neither only one, but in fact, is an organic unity of the two in a life of grace, Wherever the question breaks down in the answer, it is a bad question, and where "both...and..." is in the answer to an "either...or..." question, the question presents a false dichotomy.