Why do theists get increasingly vague, as atheists get increasingly specific?

Question

Why is it, that when I ask very specific questions about God, and follow up those questions with more specific questions, theists get less and less specific? Has anyone else noticed that, when confronted with reason, God becomes even more and more "distant" and "abstract", until eventually he's gone from smiting Egyptians based on the presence of goat's blood (Exodus), to being some kind of abstract force that exists outside of any known universe or multiverse?

Am I the only one to observe this regression? Anyone care to explain it?

Exhibits A and B, from just a few minutes ago:

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Answer 1

if you keep it up, they'll find a way to call you "satanic." that's generally the next step of their denial.

Answer 2

" Who created God? And, more importantly, why?
If intelligent beings like us are too extraordinary to happen "by chance" (or, perhaps, through the opposite of chance -- natural section), then... isn't God intelligent? And did he happen by chance?"

God also created time and space. He is the uncaused first cause of all creation. As human beings who are limited to four dimensions and our 5 senses we cannot fully comprehend how this can be. As far as we can tell everything has to come from something else. "Something" doesn't come from "nothing".

So while it is natural to think that God must have had a creator like we did, all that does is push the question back in time. If God had a creator then who created His creator and so on and so on. That's why we understand from God's revelation of Himself to mankind that He has existed eternally and we are living in the universe that He created. He isn't bound by the physical laws of our 4 dimensional awareness.

"Which is more extraordinary: a pocket watch, or God?
If God is more amazing than a pocket watch, and we've determined that a pocket watch requires a watchmaker, then how is it even remotely worth consideration that a God wouldn't require a Godmaker?

If the odds of a pocket watch simply existing on its own are infinitesimal, and God is even more extraordinary than a pocket watch, then aren't the odds of God simply existing on his own even more infinitesimal?

Have you even thought about it?"

The odds of God just coming into existence are far less likely than a pocket watch coming into existence all by itself. But the Bible doesn't teach that God just popped out of no where or was formed by molecules swirling about and chance just happend to cause them to become "God". The Bible teaches that God has always existed and that He is the creator of all matter in the universe.

Answer 3

The answerer, Ataru, has made a remark that is in part genuine. If he or she shuns you after gaining understand-how of the particular incontrovertible fact that you're non secular, do not supply it a rattling. it is their challenge, no longer yours. "Atheists" aren't to any extent further meant to act arrogantly. i'm one hundred% secular and that i anticipate each area to comprehend one yet another without interfering in any respect. One might want to nicely be loose to precise if he believes in god or no longer - yet no longer in an boastful way. sometime, there are those who've behave arrogantly because they ought to have lengthy gone with the help of something undesirable "contained in the call of religion". there are literally thousands of persons living round on your state and the neighboring states or previous, so there has were given to be some reliable-minded non secular persons. you'll locate procedures to the contact them.

Answer 4

You know, I would have massive respect for a theist who said "I don't know". Not "we don't know" or "we can't know" or "we can't comprehend it", but just "I don't know".

Nobody ever said you were expected to know everything about God, not even after following him all your life. And that's OK. I was an English major and to claim I know or can explain everything about books is preposterous, even though I live my days surrounded by them and working from them. Just too vast. And I'd imagine God would be even vaster.

Answer 5

Based on the questions alone, the have no merit.
Think of something with some intellectual capacity and you may see an answer.
I leave questions like those alone because they have little meaning.

Answer 6

That's what happens when you have no real answers but absolutely have to be right. Since they are taught that there are no boundaries for god, you can take it just about anywhere before you are willing to admit you just might not be correct.

Answer 7

The problem with religious people is that they aren't dealing with superstitious illiterates any more. They can't tell you to pray about it and have an answer because they are unable to PROVE a damned thing they say. Their beliefs and those of their companions in religion are just that................beliefs, not proven validated facts.

Answer 8

religion in general collapses under scrutiny because it's engineered by people and is a house of cards