If God exists, why does He hide from us?

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29 Apr 2013, 1:06 pm

Thom_Fuleri wrote:

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Respect for religion should be a matter of choice, not something demanded.

Actually, I think this is backwards. I will respect the believer on their own merits. I should, however, be entirely welcome to laugh at whatever nonsense they believe in. Otherwise everyone should respect my belief that I am the reincarnation of Jesus and give me all their money.

I don't get how this is in disagreement with what I said.

What I meant is one can't demand respect for one's religious beliefs. If people want to respect this person's beliefs, fine. But it shouldn't be by demanding.

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29 Apr 2013, 1:18 pm

Are we hiding from our own cells, even though an individual cell or bacterium that lives in our bodies can't possibly see or know of us in our totality?

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29 Apr 2013, 1:20 pm

Bad analogy because this implies that God is not capable of revealing himself to us in some way that indicates his presence.

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29 Apr 2013, 6:18 pm

Because God is not who everyone thinks he is. ALL HAIL CTHULHU! Let the truth be known to all

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30 Apr 2013, 12:11 pm

MCalavera wrote:

Thom_Fuleri wrote:

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Respect for religion should be a matter of choice, not something demanded.

I don't get how this is in disagreement with what I said.

Sorry, that was a bit unclear. I meant the last bit (about it being demanded) is backwards, which is what you were saying.

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08 Dec 2013, 3:59 am

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To test if we are willing to believe in Him. That belief would be meaningless if we had no way to convince ourselves otherwise. It is clear that God exists, but in the same way that it's clear that there are right and wrong actions, that the world really exists and we aren't just dreaming, that other people have minds of their own and we're not the only sentient being surrounded by a bunch of drones, etc. People can and sometimes do convince themselves that these things are false, but it's considered abnormal and/or unreasonable. If we deny the existence of God, it's a way to avoid responsibility. People can rationalize it with logic, but they do that because it's what they want to believe, however subconsciously. This should be clearly consistent with human nature - people can nearly always rationalize the conclusions they like.

This is the answer your are looking from.

"To test if we are willing to believe in Him."

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08 Dec 2013, 4:43 am

Because he is waiting for a game of peek-a-boo of cosmic proportion...

No...seriously to put it simply, it would ruin what he's trying to achieve with us and interrupt his hopes to where we will go in the future. Plus we are a**holes, and last time He did that, we nailed him to a cross and took away the only friends he ever had. We are a bunch of pricks, pricks with hammers.

Honestly if He did go "Hellloooo there", we would misunderstand it and start killing eachother in a holy war....

What do you want God to say "Whazzzzzuuuupppppp!! !!"?

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08 Dec 2013, 5:20 am

God is a Practical Joker and likes to f*ck around with us just to make us uncomfortable.

For example did you hear about the Joke he played on Abraham. He told Abraham to sacrifice his favorite son (Isaac). Abraham by this time was so brainwashed he went along and was about to slit the throat of his favorite son, when God sent down word:

Abe! Stop! I was just f*cking with you!

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08 Dec 2013, 8:00 am

Because he doesnt exist!

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08 Dec 2013, 8:19 am

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Because he doesnt exist!

Christians and Muslims keep coming up with the most elaborate and bizarre reasons why their god hides himself and hides all evidence of his existence. Their god even goes so far as to plant facts that show evolution is true and that creationism (Adam & Eve) is false. He's either a sadistic joker... or the most blatantly obvious explanation... there is no god and there never has been.

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08 Dec 2013, 8:23 am

My argument is that the God finds it immoral to directly intervene with the affairs of his creations.

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Because he somehow managed to annoy all the other gods, and he's worried that if he does any obvious miracles, they'll notice and beat him up. Gods are like that.

HAHAHA!

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11 Dec 2013, 12:43 am

TallyMan wrote:

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Because he doesnt exist!

No kidding how about we tell them we wished god away with a magic lamp they might believe it and be sad then get angry then accept there is no god.

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11 Dec 2013, 12:54 am

Ganondox wrote:

My argument is that the God finds it immoral to directly intervene with the affairs of his creations.

Arcanyn wrote:

Because he somehow managed to annoy all the other gods, and he's worried that if he does any obvious miracles, they'll notice and beat him up. Gods are like that.

HAHAHA!

Hes afraid of Chuck Norris! Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye made him cry and dissappear already!