"God" & modern times.?

Question

Why did "God" intervene so many times in human affairs during antiquity (according to the Bible) and yet does not do a single thing during modern times?

Answer 1

your question is silly. You know it already. I am disappointed in you.

Answer 2

In Antiquity mankind seemed at his best. The Pyramids, The Great Wall, the Parthenon, and the enitirety of the Roman Empire are unbelieveable in itself. Without proof the ventures of Julius Ceaser and Alexander the Great would read as pure fiction. This Age of "magic" bogels the minds of the modern world because we cannot fathom achievement on that scale without modern innovations.

Because mankind was able to acheive such feats, the stories of the Gods didn't seem so out of place. What is easier to believe a man healing the sick or the non-mechanical construction of the pyramids. Talking to angels in caves or the non-mechanical construction of the Great Wall.

God no longer intervenes because he never did. Whether he exists or not is irrelevant what matters is survival and the religons of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam did exactly that... survived. All for various reasons and none of them divine

Answer 3

Who says? The nation of Israel has been gathered back into their promised land within the last 60 years, as a fulfillment of ancient prophecy. Heck they weren't a nation for nearly 2,000 years and all of a sudden they come from every country on the planet to become a nation again. This is not an event that any human beings planned or orchestrated. This is the hand of God. And it is only the beginning of end-time prophecies in the Bible being fulfilled. The scope and magnitude of this one event is in one sense the biggest miracle that God has done since the parting of the Red Sea in the Exodus. The more you know about what the scriptures say, the more you understand about what God is doing in the earth. We have been in the "church age" for the last 2,000 years. Paul referred to the time we are closing in upon now as the "fulness of the Gentiles."(Romans 11:25) Jesus referred to this place in time as "the beginning of sorrows."(Matthew 24:8) It's not that He isn't doing anything - that is a misinformed perception. It's that He is doing something different now than what He was doing before. But before it is all over, there is going to be more marvelous things to be done by Him than in all of time leading up to now.

Answer 4

From a religious point of view this rabbi said something along the lines God is like a parent first he was teaching us how to walk now we are on our own.

To me:

The fable is old enough that people believe its true. Something that is made up can not be physically present today. After all if God was real he would not lets us have the power to destroy earth few hundred times over.

Answer 5

God intervened in those times because people said he intervened. Now if someone says God intervened he\she would get one eyebrow raised at them.

Answer 6

Perhaps it is your view that, "God does not a single thing during modern times". As for me, he intervenes in so many ways, as he does for so many. Remember, the Word of God says, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, I will hear from them and heal their land." Just as we can't see the wind, so is the Lord God, you can't see him, but you can feel him mightily and see what he does. There are so many things involved in getting prayer answered, if you would like my personal study on this, please, feel free to e-mail me and I will share.

Answer 7

There is no proof that he does not intervene in modern affairs. For all we know things could be a lot worse and he has just kept it from becoming so.

Answer 8

I don't think anything has changed in terms of God's intervention. He/She/It may be at work in the world or He/She/It may not; it can't be proven.

However, people...some of them at least...HAVE changed.

Now, we apply reason, logic, and common sense to events and situations we face rather than immediately looking for some divine intervention.

Here's what I mean: In the middle ages, it was a popular notion that mice could be "created" by tossing old rags and straw in a dark corner of a room and just waiting a few days. It sounds absurd now, but people truly believed it then.

As we become more educated, we become less susceptible to supernatural explanations for things.

Answer 9

Because 'ancient' people were much simpler, thus making them easy to be tricked into believing all sorts of things. Plus, stories get told and retold, passed down from generation to generation, possibly undergoing revisions; who knows, it might have not been the way you were told.
I know the bible was written at that time, but if you think about it, many of the things written there are not meant to be taken literally. An example is jesus and his parables. That could been a hint for the rest of the bible. Think about it. Descriptions of heaven and hell could have been talking about karma, not actual places. like if you do something terrible in this life, it will come back at you in your next. Heaven is not anywhere above, and hell below us is nowhere to be found. Early people didn't know any of this, so they took it the literal way. Another thing - Adam and Eve. It is impossible for 2 people to populate the whole earth, especially with so many different races. This could go as an analogy for the early people about evolution. As i said, they were quite simple. They couldn't possibly understand evolution.

What I'm saying here is that god as people take him to be may not at all be what is meant in the bible, and the way people interpret the bible today, may not be the way it was originally meant to be interpreted. Maybe he didnt intervene at all.

Answer 10

You are not tuned in to these times. God is at work more in small ways now than what we were made aware of in the old testament. Many people are coming to faith all across the world with out the benefit of newspaper headlines. God is at work with the Holy Spirit touching people lives. People in muslim countries are having dreams of Jesus visiting them and changing their lives.

http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0776_1983_-_Decade_for_As.html

Answer 11

I don't have the answer, and I think that's just another hurdle you'll have to face when you accept organized religion.

Just a note though: that "antiquity" you're talking about, spanned supposedly over thousands of years and thousands of wars, and was passed down orally from generation to generation. Maybe its just a problem of perspective.