Can GOD leave?

Answer 1

Maybe we are God's way of thinking outside of that box...

Answer 2

God created all things and the laws of physics foundational. All that is in place. He operates outside of time, thus He does not have to be here in space-time, and can surely leave our humanly perceived sphere. But this can best be answered in terms of His one on one relationship with each human being.

The foundation of our being "in His image" is free will. He chooses to occupy His creation and keep individuals' company based upon their choice to know Him. There is a point at which He will stop trying to draw a person, but none of us knows what is that final snap for His exit from a particular life. There is a point at which God knows when one has become irretrievably convinced that He does not exist

God will show you He is up close and personal and chase after you with inconceivable patience. Perhaps in a show of braids. It is not of oneself; He gives faith. We accept it or subjectively see ourselves instead. Draw near to Him and He comes closer. Push Him away and He argues for intimacy until all potential dies.

God is a person. I don't ask anyone to understand Jesus Christ, faith, or the Sacrifice. If you accept that such is elegantly the perfect equalizer, then the life and love in it will follow by fidelity, and Christ does say He will never forsake, therefore God will always be with the chosen chooser. Nevertheless, God surely can leave individuals. And He could effectively leave by snuffing out everything. Nevertheless, He promised not to, and pure truth is His unchangeable nature.

I have heard several Bible scholars that claim the 300 year period between the end of the Old Testament and beginning of the New, was a time during which God withdrew His presence. Some think, as the way God addresses a nation as though it were a person, the following verses in Ecclesiastes ch 12 are a prophetic experience of His withdrawal:

1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
"I have no pleasure in them":
2 While the sun and the light,
The moon and the stars,
Are not darkened,
And the clouds do not return after the rain;
3 In the day when the keepers of the house tremble,
And the strong men bow down;
When the grinders cease because they are few,
And those that look through the windows grow dim;
4 When the doors are shut in the streets,
And the sound of grinding is low;
When one rises up at the sound of a bird,
And all the daughters of music are brought low.
5 Also they are afraid of height,
And of terrors in the way;
When the almond tree blossoms,
The grasshopper is a burden,
And desire fails.
For man goes to his eternal home,
And the mourners go about the streets.


6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed,
Or the golden bowl is broken,
Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,
Or the wheel broken at the well.
7Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
And the spirit will return to God who gave it. (NKJV)


The following would be the short, albeit indirect, answer:

God the Creator is separate from His creation. God is not the universe. He occupies it because He "wants" to.

Answer 3

Did God leave Hitler or Jeffery Damer? How bout those Spanish Inquisitors?

Answer 4

He can do anything He wants. In the Old Testament He left the Temple. If He manifests Himself specifically in one place for a reason, yes, He can leave there as well.

Answer 5

It's not a ? of can God leave it's will he leave? Can God leave? Sure. Will he leave? No we are his wonderful creation and he loves us. We are his children. Would you leave your children?

Answer 6

No, he promises in his Word to never "leave you or forsake you"... since God can't lie he can't leave. We can put a wall between us and God though... it is called sin. God never left he just can't have communion with us when we are in sin.

Answer 7

No, god would have to exist in order to leave.

Answer 8

(Hebrews 13:5-6) . . .. For he has said: “I will by no means leave you nor by any means forsake you.” 6 So that we may be of good courage and say: “Jehovah is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

Answer 9

Can GOD come?

Answer 10

no, and he cant throw a sicky neither. If he exists then hes stuck where he is just hovering outsde creation!