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If I wanted to know about God I would certainly turn to brilliant human beings who cannot even understand all of creation let alone create any of it. I would not bother to read the bible that God spent 1600 years having written for our benefit. No, I would exert my right to be stupid and say, why doesn't God reveal Himself?

I would not bother to study nature either. There is nothing nature can teach me. I already know everything. I know why the stars revolve in perfect order and I know why butterflies can migrate thousands of miles and never get lost even though it takes them 4 generations to do so. I know exactly why a spider's web is stronger than the strongest steel man can make and why the bumblebee can fly despite the fact that it's wings are too frail to support the weight of its body.

I know how plants tricked insects into helping them reproduce and why a mother bat returning to her roost can find her own baby among millions of other babies. I know why a clown fish can live inside an anemone when any other fish would die if it tried. I also know why no other fish tries. I know why meerkats sometimes fall asleep on guard duty and don't get punished and I know why there are beautiful flowers of all colors on the bottom of the pitch black ocean where no one can see them unless they turn on a light. I am sometimes overwhelmed by my knowledge.

The only thing I can't figure out is why doesn't God give us more evidence of His existence?

But God did give you evidence of his existence, at least according to you bible he did. He gave Moses the 10 commandments. You remember, those stone tablets that God wrote with his own hand. They are made of stone so it's not like they would rot away. If we test it and the writing could not have been done by things of this world then that would prove that your God is real and the rest are fake. Do you think they may have lost such an important artifact? Did Moses destroy that copy too and it just got left out? Don't tell me you conveniently lost the one and only thing that could change your faith into a known fact.

Always funny when some people use overly bias sources. Does that mean the clan, and Nazis are right because their sources back their claim?

I checked out the link you provided and found it utterly implausible. Like most Christian propaganda, it blithely presumes mental experiences are actually real and simply ignores the objective physical realm which is the true basis of objective reality. Thanks to ancient Greek philosophy and its spin-off, Catholic Scholasticism, Christianity has always purported that mental experiences are actually real -- unfortunately, nowadays, anybody with an adequate education knows they are not.

The reason God doesn't provide more evidence is that He has always been a purely mental phenomenon and has no independent physical existence. God is a neurological abstraction which occupies the minds of human beings -- minds which are the result of metabolic energy flowing through the neurological complexity of each living brain.

It's been four centuries since the Enlightenment proved the physical realm exists independently of human perception and revealed that Solipsism, Idealism, and Scholasticism are utterly false. Until and unless Christianity undergoes an intellectual reformation and learns to properly distinguish between objective reality and subjective experience, it is doomed to eventually become another obsolete mythology.

Very little is lost by finally admitting that God is a mental abstraction, but there are legions of educated people whose intellectual integrity simply will not allow them to hypocritically pretend a mental abstraction has an objective existence. If Christianity is to avoid the fate of all the previous obsolete mythologies, it must upgrade its archaic doctrine to remain consistent with humanity's modern understanding of the subjective/objective reality we all share.

Logic complains that for ten years she prayed to God and no answer, did she call upon Him in childlike faith and did she believe with all her heart that He would answer, though not according to what she wished for but in a different way. I prayed to God at five years old, why they were fighting during the second word war. the answer was not long in coming, the answer was "greed"

I find that argument to be untenable. First, it demeans God. The argument insinuates that God cannot figure out a way to prove he exists yet still give us freewill, which means that God is not omniscient. Second, it does not address the freewill/omniscience paradox. Third, it contradicts observations in human nature; penal systems around the world prove that knowing you will be punished for a crime does not deter freewill. Forth, it contradicts the Bible; the Bible is a doctrine based on fear. People who believe in God do so out of fear; fear of dying, fear of not having a purpose, fear of torture for eternity, fear of never seeing their loved ones again, fear of the unknown. Fifth, it insinuates that it knows what God wants.

It is not a plausible argument.

He has we just didn't know it until now. Science can now prove that the food and hygiene laws in the Book of Leviticus have been based for the last 3500 plus years on the germ theory of disease and the modern human body. How does that prove they originated from the scientific knowledge of God and not from the minds of mankind? Easy. 3500 years ago there were 0 humans alive on earth who had a working knowledge of the germ theory of disease and the modern human body for these laws to have originated from. Those who believe the ancient Israelites learned to establish these laws through observation only over time are greatly mistaken.

I have a question, or rather a statement based on a question I have hinted at after reading this article. If the events of the Bible (and Qu'ron) are real, he was all ready about revealing himself and talking to people in person about his existence, but as the book goes on his influence (in person) gradually diminishes until he's barely interfering at all until Jesus (and even Jesus asks God why he was forsaken when he was crucified - does that necessarily say "He's God" to you?

If the Bible is not real but merely an allegorical legend, shall I break out my Vedas? Or my Levayen Satanist Bible?

Shall I break out my scientific reports?

Shall I break out my analysis?

So what is plausible about saying:

'He argues that if God reveals himself too much to people, he takes away our freedom to make morally-significant decisions, including responding to his self-revelation to us. Murray argues that God stays somewhat hidden, so that he gives people space to either 1) respond to God, or 2) avoid God so we can keep our autonomy from him'

An invisible God is equivalent to ALL invisible gods. I prayed as a child for TEN YEARS! Did God EVER respond in any way suggesting he was listening? No. If you call a phone number for ten years & there is never ANY answer at the end of the line why assume anyone is there?!!!

The Christian god is one of a great many. It is not the oldest. It is not the one with more evidence either. It is merely the one with the most followers - currently. It wasn't in the past. It probably won't be in the future looking at Islamic birth rates. As a result it isn't special at all so why believe in it!?

How much evidence u want ?

Your body has such a beautiful system , with many systems like circulatory system , nervous system , digestive system running simultaneously , can that self create ?

Body of a bird has wings to make it fly , a fish has gills to make it breathe in water , a Camel can survive for months without water in desserts

There are thousands of organisms , each with different specialty can they self create ?

There is only one creator , Allah the Al mighty

I do not know about you but the bible is a big one and the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues is a huge one. We can see all of His creation before our eyes and we hear it as well. We can watch a baby being born and know their is a God.

but the ones that doubt it are not playing with a full deck and would deny their own mother if they were sure they would be famous for it.