Why would God want to make it blatantly obvious that He exists?
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That is an interesting question dannythegr8, and you got me thinking.\n\nLet's start here...\nEphesians 2:8\nFor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.\n\nJesus told the parable of the mustard seed, though it is the smallest of all seeds, if you have that much faith, you could move a mountain. So really, faith can be just a speck, but God will honor it. If you have zero faith, you will not pray at all. If you have a speck of faith, you can pray like the man who's son was possessed.\n\nMark 9:24\nImmediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”\n\nAnd God will meet you where you are at.
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If evil exists and god is against evil then god cannot be all good all knowing and all powerful at the same time.He either doesn't know about evil, doesn't have a problem with evil, or can't do anything about evil. \n\nThis is not about free will either, as if god is all knowing he would have known about evil before it happens, If he were all powerful he would be able to stop the evil, and were he all good he would not have created people who were going to do evil in the first place. \n\nThere is no way arround it, such a god would have created the universe for evil to be in it. He would have wanted evil. Thankfully there's polytheism.
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If god really exists he would be everywhere simultaneously.
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If God is all-knowing, then everything is exactly how he wants it to be. He then constructed everything to form a chain reaction of "freewill", the snowball effect of coincidences. He already knows the next time you will "sin" and that "sin" committed, was actually inspired by God to complete the bigger picture of creation.
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It says that God makes mistakes.....which would explain so much.
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No, it makes no sense at all. It is nothing more than an argument from ignorance.\n\nThe most obvious flaw in the argument is that it gives no indication what God or Gods to believe in. Even if we assume the universe is so complicated because of divine involvement why should we accept your God did it? Why not instead assume Satan did it? OR Great Cthulhu? Or Odin? Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster?\n\nYour whole position is can be summed up as nothing more than “We can’t prove God didn’t do it so he must have done it.” That is nonsense. You can’t prove Flying Spaghetti Monster didn’t do it either. Does that mean that you now accept ha he did do it?
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you could use it in a way to show that God is all-knowing. He knows the truth and only hears the truth no matter if we try to cover it or lie.
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If you believe God exists then you have accept that He knows everything and therefore everything is His divine plan.  This means that Hitler was His divine plan, cancer is part of His plan, and people who are born disabled are all part of His plan.
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The same reason he made some ppl smart and some ppl stupid.\nLol kidding. god does not exist.
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More importantly, and I suspect this is what you're getting at, why would a god who wants worship set himself up to be totally illogical and irrational? I think that if there was a god controlling it all, we'd be somehow predispositioned to believing in him, rather than having to ignore all logic and reason just to get into heaven.
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A very astute observation.\n\nScripture assures as that God can know all things, but being all powerful certainly he has the ability to refrain from knowing certain things if he so chooses.\n\nThus, at Genesis 11:5-8 God is described as directing his attention earthward, surveying the situation at Babel, and, at that time, determining the action to be taken to break up the unrighteous project there. After wickedness developed at Sodom and Gomorrah, Jehovah advised Abraham of his decision to investigate (by means of his angels) to “see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and, if not, I can get to know it.” (Genesis 18:20-22; 19:1) God spoke of ‘becoming acquainted with Abraham,’ and after Abraham went to the point of attempting to sacrifice Isaac, Jehovah said, “For now I do know that you are God-fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”—Genesis 18:19; 22:11, 12; compare Nehemiah 9:7, 8; Galatians 4:9.\n\nSelective foreknowledge means that God could choose not to foreknow indiscriminately all the future acts of his creatures. This would mean that, rather than all history from creation onward being a mere rerun of what had already been foreseen and foreordained, God could with all sincerity set before the first human pair the prospect of everlasting life in an earth free from wickedness. His instructions to his first human son and daughter to act as his perfect and sinless agents in filling the earth with their offspring and making it a paradise, as well as exercising control over the animal creation, could thus be expressed as the grant of a truly loving privilege and as his genuine desire toward them—not merely as the giving of a commission that, on their part, was foredoomed to failure. God’s arranging for a test by means of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” and his creation of “the tree of life” in the garden of Eden also would not be meaningless or cynical acts, made so by his foreknowing that the human pair would sin and never be able to eat of “the tree of life.”—Genesis 1:28; 2:7-9, 15-17; 3:22-24.
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So that we know about Gods existence and the beautiful things that He has made.\nWhat would God do in a lonely world.. so He simply blew life in it.
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In the past, God did do that. He performed miracles for the Israelites such as the plagues, he got them through the Red Sea, he provided manna for them in the wilderness so that they could survive but even with all that - they still did not do the one thing he asked of them which was to obey him and no other.  So, do you really think that if he provided proof of his existence through a miracle or something that people would believe in him??? The Israelites didn't. But do you know that he does provide proof of his existence today? How you say? Well, look around you - the earth and it's many beautiful and wonderful creations - to start with, there is us as humans. Only a higher power could of created such an intrensic, complex being. There is animals, all of their different kinds, plants, flowers... all of this is a testament to God who created it! He also has provided the bible - which is like a letter from a Father to his children. This provides everything we need to know about how this earth was created, where we have been and where we are going. \nI don't think that by God just appearing or providing a miracle to prove he exists would really do much in making people believe in him - just remember the Israelites.
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yeah, try to DIS-PROVE the existence of "GOD"
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If god existed he had to be made of something. What???\nAtoms, Energy, or maybe some thing beyond our imaginations.\nIF IT WAS ENERGY or ATOMS THEN WHY IS HE SO DIFF RENT FROM US.\nNOW IF he was MADE OF SOMETHING EVEN BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS then there has to be someone who created those things which make god up.\nAND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD JUST HAPPENED TO EXIST, BELIEVE THAT GOD IS FUNDAMENTAL, THEN I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU what is the problem with treating the universe the same way ???
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If God wanted to leave absolutely no room for anyone to doubt or try to disprove His existance and authority, He could have done. His thoughts and ways are better than ours - we'd love everyone to just have to believe - but God gives everyone the choice. People don't want it to be true that there is a God - the implications are too big. Like recognising that yes there is actually right and wrong - people don't want to go there - remember Pharohs magicians who tried to explain away the wonders that were shown them in Egypt - they didn't want to acknowlege God either - its nothing fresh!  The reality of our Eternal God who controls everything in life and death is just more than folks can take - they want to "live a good life and be happy" They don't want to know about a God who will hold us responsible what we do with our lives, it just doesn't fit with their "lifestyle choice". They will either try to logically reason a way that it could possibly have happened without needing a God or they will just instantly dismiss these realities without further thought as just "fairy tales". Don't fret. Yes some people will try to explain things in a way that ignores God, they refuse to believe - creation itself cries out! Its of no suprise in one sense ... there is going to be both the sheep and the goats. Stand firm. One day every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that He Is LORD.
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It does seem suspicious, doesn't it...perhaps they don't want to prove the Bible to be correct?