Why does God hide himself?

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God doesn't hide himself from the people who believe in him.

Why wouldn't he show himself to those who need proof?

Why would he?

To prove that he exists.

Why? What would you do differently?

 

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Because he is an asshole.

He sits on that throne and lets his children suffer...A bad dad.

Rembrandt painted himself in his famous painting, "Christ in the Storm."

He's the one holding onto the mast for dear life.

In this account Jesus and the disciples were on the Sea of Galilee and a violent storm comes up suddenly. The Sea of Galilee is the lowest freshwater lake on earth at approximately 210 m (700 ft) below sea level. It is longer than it is wide. At its widest points, the lake measures 21 km (13 mi) from north to south and 12 km (7.5 mi) from east to west and is surrounded by hills. The elevation, shape and contour of the lake make it susceptible to storms. Violent storms do "roll" in there suddenly. They even have a name for it. They are called Sharkias.

"...Such storms result from differences in temperatures between the seacoast and the mountains beyond. The Sea of Galilee lies 680 feet below sea level. It is bounded by hills, especially on the east side where they reach 2000 feet high. These heights are a source of cool, dry air. In contrast, directly around the sea, the climate is semi-tropical with warm, moist air. The large difference in height between surrounding land and the sea causes large temperature and pressure changes. This results in strong winds dropping to the sea, funneling through the hills. The Sea of Galilee is small, and these winds may descend directly to the center of the lake with violent results. When the contrasting air masses meet, a storm can arise quickly and without warning. Small boats caught out on the sea are in immediate danger..."

SEA OF GALILEE - What's special about the Sea of Galilee? Why does it have sudden storms? • KidExplorers.com / ChristianAnswers.Net

More Than a Fisherman

So the setting for this account is valid. In the account, Jesus is sleeping while His disciples are panicking. They couldn't understand how He could be sleeping while their lives were being threatened. That's how most people see God. He's not there when they are going through the storms of their lives. That's how YOU see God too.

God is a Master Gardner. He uses it all but does His best work when we are suffering. It's like pruning a bush. Some branches are thin and snap right off. Others are thicker and have to be sawed off. Some hurt more than others. At first it looks like crap. All sparse and twiggy, but then as the new growth occurs it comes in more full and looking better looking than before. He uses it all to progress us and for the one's who know how it works they have peace through the storms to the point they are not storms. But for everyone else they will be holding on for dear life like Rembrandt not understanding how God is working in their lives. This is especially true for assholes like YOU.

 

[Mudda]

You're a clown, nothing more.

It seems that the truth has stung you.

No, you're a harmless clown.

Which is why 99% of your posts are to me or discuss me. You are drawn to me like moth to a flame. You don't even understand it yourself. It is like I have invisible puppet wires making you dance. So your actions belie your words.

Sorry, a self-important clown.

Don't be so hard on yourself.

Now you don't understand English?

 

[Mudda]

God doesn't hide himself from the people who believe in him.

Why wouldn't he show himself to those who need proof?

Why would he?

To prove that he exists.

Why? What would you do differently?

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

 

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It seems that the truth has stung you.

No, you're a harmless clown.

Which is why 99% of your posts are to me or discuss me. You are drawn to me like moth to a flame. You don't even understand it yourself. It is like I have invisible puppet wires making you dance. So your actions belie your words.

Sorry, a self-important clown.

Don't be so hard on yourself.

Now you don't understand English?

I understand English pretty well. It seems that you are the one who doesn't understand it. That or you can't follow logic.

 

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God doesn't hide himself from the people who believe in him.

Why wouldn't he show himself to those who need proof?

Why would he?

To prove that he exists.

Why? What would you do differently?

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

 

[Mudda]

Why wouldn't he show himself to those who need proof?

Why would he?

To prove that he exists.

Why? What would you do differently?

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

 

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Why would he?

To prove that he exists.

Why? What would you do differently?

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

 

[Mudda]

To prove that he exists.

Why? What would you do differently?

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

 

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Why? What would you do differently?

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

 

[Mudda]

I could get the real deal on what he wants and why we're here. I know, that doesn't matter to you.

That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

Where is this "Word of God"?

 

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That isn't that hard to figure out, Einstein.

"...If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their carefree consumption. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it..."

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn -- A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

Where is this "Word of God"?

2 Peter 1

 

[Mudda]

Nice guess. I'd prefer to hear the real deal from the Horse's mouth.

No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

Where is this "Word of God"?

2 Peter 1

So you heard god in a book.

 

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No guessing required. He has already told us that is what are here for. Don't you believe in evolution?

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

Where is this "Word of God"?

2 Peter 1

So you heard god in a book.

And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

 

[Mudda]

God has already told you? Where? When? WTF?

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

Where is this "Word of God"?

2 Peter 1

So you heard god in a book.

And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

So god never actually said anything. Got it.

 

[ding]

It can be seen in nature for one and yes, He did tell us in the Word of God. Don't you believe in evolution? Don't you believe that consciousness is evolving? Or have you been smoking too much weed to see it?

Where is this "Word of God"?

2 Peter 1

So you heard god in a book.

And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

So god never actually said anything. Got it.

You mean that science isn't enough for you?

 

[Mudda]

Where is this "Word of God"?

2 Peter 1

So you heard god in a book.

And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

So god never actually said anything. Got it.

You mean that science isn't enough for you?

Science has never said that god spoke. Please try again.

 

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2 Peter 1

So you heard god in a book.

And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

So god never actually said anything. Got it.

You mean that science isn't enough for you?

Science has never said that god spoke. Please try again.

But science does tell us that consciousness evolved from space and time and that consciousness is evolving.

 

[Mudda]

So you heard god in a book.

And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

So god never actually said anything. Got it.

You mean that science isn't enough for you?

Science has never said that god spoke. Please try again.

But science does tell us that consciousness evolved from space and time and that consciousness is evolving.

Not only is that more clown fartsmoke, but that's not god talking, that's a theory.

 

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And observed it in nature through the evolution of matter.

So god never actually said anything. Got it.

You mean that science isn't enough for you?

Science has never said that god spoke. Please try again.

But science does tell us that consciousness evolved from space and time and that consciousness is evolving.

Not only is that more clown fartsmoke, but that's not god talking, that's a theory.

Clearly you are ignorant on the stages of evolution of matter.