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where are you God?

where are you God?. a quest to find a hidden God – Ps. 10. where is God?. you Christians have got it wrong.

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where are you God?

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  1. where are you God? • a quest to find a hidden God – Ps. 10

  2. where is God?

  3. you Christians have got it wrong • “If the statements it [the Bible] contains concerning matters of history and science can be proven by extra biblical records, by ancient documents recovered through archeological digs, or by the established facts of modern science to be contrary to the truth, then there is grave doubt as to its trustworthiness in matters of religion.” – Gleason Archer

  4. you Christians have got it wrong • 1 Thess. 5.19-21 • Shouldn’t the probability or expectation of God, if He exists, would leave more evidence of His existence than what we have? • Testing of Scripture? • Religious Experience • Testimonium Spiritu Sancti internum VS. sensus divinitatis?

  5. you Christians have got it wrong • Why doesn’t God prevent the world’s unbelief by making His existence starkly apparent? • I.e. By inscribing the label “made by God” on every atom or planting a neon cross in the heavens with the message “Jesus saves.”

  6. is the whole question misleading? • On the Christian view it is actually a matter of relative indifference to God whether people believe that He exists or not. • God is interested in building a love relationship with us, not just getting us to believe that He exists. Even the demons believe He exists (Jas. 2.19).

  7. natural theology • There is no doubt that God is hidden to a certain degree. • Romans 1.19-21, 2.14-15 • Cosmological (five or six versions) • Teleological/design (couple versions) • Greater mind • Moral (2 or so versions) • Alvin Plantinga has developed two dozen or so arguments

  8. pain & suffering • Who are we to assess the situation? • We are not in a privileged spatiotemporal time frame. • The world as one big haunted house. • If God created a world circumstance where He revealed every reason for every evil than that may create undesirable and even worse circumstances. • Peter, the reason why you have cancer is because it will bring about the salvation of others in Chiapas, Mexico 20 years from now.

  9. are you blind? • God may not want you to know certain things at certain times (Lk. 24.13-35). • Be content with ignorance. • Persevere in obedience despite the lack of evidential purpose or progress that we expect. • God is there, persevere in that love relationship. Get back to the real questions.

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