If God is real, shouldn't it be obvious?

Question

When I talk to religious people, they say you have to seek God and accept him into your life in order to see his will at play. But if God is real, all-powerful and everywhere, why should seeing him require me to believe first? Isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 1

After all these answers, I can offer to you only the reading of "Rational Spirituality", the thinking man's knowledge of God and the Universe.

Your question indicates to me that you can think.

"Rational Spirituality" will, sooner than you think, replace the religions with the sheer power of its logical argument.

Answer 2

It is incrdedibly obvious. The axis of the Earth is tilted at a perfect 23 degree angle. It is no mistake that it is. This allows equal, global distributions of the rays of the Sun, which makes it possible for the food chain to exist. Or take for example the combination of nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere that we breath everyday, it just happens to be the exact mix that life needs to prosper.

Did you know that the moon controls the tide? It's the maid that cleans the ocean. Even the waves don't crash to shore in vain. The tide drags impurities into the depths of the sea. It is nature's constant recycling chain. It simply boggles the mind to think that the stars will rotate with such precision, and that the atomic clock as an error factor of 3 seconds per millennium, and is set by the way we move.

The Bible says that "the things of God are clearly seen in His creation", to believe this is not hard. If there is a design, there is a designer, if there is a plan, there is a planner.

"the heavens declare the glory of God", and that "the skies proclaim the work of his hands". If we allow our minds to drink in all the truth that surrounds us, creation itself will help us understand.

Answer 3

If God is visible he will be like anybody and will not have the respect from anyone. He will become a ordinary man. He has to be to be invisible and we can according to our religion or faith give him a shape and pray him. He is responsible for making you and me to act and give rewards and punishments.

God is the deity believed by monotheists to be the supreme reality. He is believed variously to be the sole omnipotent creator, or at least the sustainer, of the universe.

Theologians and philosophers have ascribed a number of attributes to God, including omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. He has been described as incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the greatest conceivable existent. These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars, including St Augustine, Al-Ghazali, and Maimonides. Freud regarded this view of God as wish fulfillment for the perfect father figure, while Marxist writers see it as rooted in the powerlessness experienced by men and women in oppressive societies.

All the great medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God, attempting to wrestle with the contradictions God's attributes seem to imply. For example, God's omniscience implies that he knows how free agents will choose to act. If he does know this, their apparent free will might be illusory, or foreknowledge does not imply predestination; and if he does not know it, he is not omniscient. Similar difficulties follow from the proposition that God is the source of all moral obligation. If nothing would be right or wrong without God's commands, then his commands appear arbitrary. If his commands are based on fundamental principles that even he cannot change, then he is not omnipotent.

The last few hundred years of philosophy have seen sustained attacks on the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments for God's existence. Against these, theists (or fideists) argue that faith is not a product of reason, but requires risk.

Answer 4

you dont seek God, he's always there, its whether you choose to acknowledge he is there or not. its like the wind, you cant see it, but you can feel it. ok, say you almost got in a car accident and barely missed the car next to you, chance or a small miracle? god at work, or crazy coincidence? either way its up to you, if you choose to believe in him thats great, just dont let people tell you that unless you believe in God you're going to hell. thats manipulative. just try a church service or praying, maybe flip through a bible a little bit and explore the religion. God is really accepting the fact that theres something out there bigger than you and me, something that cant really be explained. k i know this may sound weird but hang up side down and look at the sky, that majesty cant be made by something as simple as science or the human body and how perfectly it is made, intelligent design, we couldnt have possible come to be what we are from a bunch of cellular mutations. i guess it all comes back to the wind, you cant see it, but you can feel it. though not physically, but emotionally and spiritually. it fills that empty space in our hearts we try to fill with other things in life, its the only thing that really fits. God, do you think he exists? and how obvious he is, maybe your eyes are closed to the possibility, allow yourself to open up and exploree

Answer 5

why believe in something that is not there.people try to shove religion down our throats everywhere we go.if there was an actual god would we have war?would there be suffering children all around the world?would one man or women be better than another,no.if there was a god the world would not be the way it is today.the bible is just a book that someone wrote whenever it was written.people needed something to believe in caus the world has sucked for a long time and they thought that believing in some god would make it better but it didnt.

Answer 6

No, why would he make it that easy? That way, there would be no test for man. If it were that obvious, everyone would just drop what they are doing and the world as we know it would no longer exist.

Believing isn't enough, then it just a matter of language, and words coming off your tounge "I accept Jesus as my savior" or whatever religion it is you are referring to, but many people don't really mean it. You do have to seek it

Answer 7

I agree with you 100%. We believe so we can see. It seems that others can't see. My Mother is a black belt Atheist at 75 years old and still holds out that Jesus is like the Easter Bunny when everyone around her is a Christian. She has a grade school education as far as I know. It Just blows my mind, GOD to me is a no brainer. I see GOD in everything.

May GOD richly bless you.

Answer 8

If God was obvious, wouldn't that limit your ability to choose? Would you bother to choose between good and bad? It would be like choosing to jump off of a cliff or not.

You don't have to believe in It. Say that you don't know, open your mind to all knowledge, and live a good life. It will find you and you will know.

Answer 9

God does not wait around for anyone to "Accept Him into their life", as if He sits and looks, and says, "Oh, I love that one there, but she has not accepted me, so she's out..."

The law of mind is one of belief, in our terms of physical "life". Jesus said, "It is done...as you believe." That is what it means; not that God only "loves" you when you love him, but that what you think and feel is done. It simply speaks of the great creative nature of mind.

We already are everything to God. We never lost Him, nor could we; nor could He ever lose us. God created us as part of God, the only way there is to create.

Answer 10

Why would God make his presence too obvious?? Would he just create a boring utopia where all people are good and do the same thing .
What will be the use then???