How come God offered physical evidence to people in Biblical times, but today it's all about faith?

Question

Turning water into wine, appearing as a burning bush, parting the red sea... not to mention, rising from the dead and ascending into Heaven.

Back then, people were apparently given hard evidence. Why not today?

Hiya, Candy!

Answer 1

God supposedly showed himself to people in the biblical times, and there are people today that have seen manifestations of what they believe is God. It is all about preceptive what you believe. All religion is, is a faith based system. You need the faith that the higher being exists. God didn't raise from the dead, his son did, but yeah you are right, well see the parting of the red sea is actually a dike that every year the wind pushes the water off of it. The blood water, is actually silt turning the color red.

Answer 2

Understand the lack of knowledge of the Biblical people. Study the history of ancient civilizations from a university, not from a religion. The illiteracy rate was 99% back then and they believed that the Earth was flat. Anytime they witnessed something that they could not comprehend, religion claims that it was God. Archaeologists have discovered 20.000 yr old caves with charcoal drawings of people in UFOs on the walls. Biblical people believed that only birds and insects could fly. If Biblical people saw a UFO, what do you think they called it? Over the centuries as mankind has gained more and more knowledge and understanding, God showed up less and less. Now God is a complete 'no-show'. The only thing that is showing up more and more are UFOs (if you'll rule out World Government denial). The only so called hard evidence is what the religions claim and they can't seem to agree on God, but they take in $3 billion a year in donations.

Answer 3

God does not change. It has been about faith from the beginning.

It is, however, Not all about faith today. It is about the fact that people do not have faith. At least not faith that produces. Faith should produce evidence not excuses.

The problem is that millions, of every kindred and tongue, are subscribers to vast collections of religious ideas but have no faith.

There would have been no parting sea or burning bush had not Moses, by faith, walked out of Egypt 40 years earlier.

Luke 18:8 ending the parable of the unjust judge,,."Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"

In addition to dwindling faith; we are nearing the time when God's spirit will no longer strive with man. Yet the voice that called Moses and Elias, the voice which called Peter and Paul, the voice that called Charles Finney and William Branham, speaks in thousands of hearts today and gives real substance to our hopes. There are people today with hard evidence, even on Yahoo! Search them out.

Answer 4

God's revelation to mankind was delivered in His creation and was followed through his direct interaction with mankind in the first 11,000 years or so of man's existence. God, in effect, was done. He had revealed all that was necessary for his fallen creation to move back into His grace, including a written record of these events. We have plenty of physical evidence of God's direct actions in the inspired books of the bible.

What more could God do today than He did then? The response would be the same: some would believe and many more would not. Christ alluded to this when he claimed that even performing miracles would not convince the skeptics of His generation.

Quite honestly, I am a bit glad that God does not appear in the heavens and thunder, "Here I AM You Wicked and Viperous Fools! Believe me, now?" Because if He did, we would no longer have any excuses for our actions and would all be found wanting. As things are today, I can hope that through my belief and my works that I will be found worthy. I don't think that I am just yet, so the longer I do not see that thundering face in the sky, the better for me.

Answer 5

The physical evidence you speak of was given to "people of faith", not to a non believer walking down a dusty path. Faith was the basis even back then.

And, believe me, if you had a personal relationship with God and Jesus, you would have physical evidence. I have seen more "miracles" in my own life than anyone who was written about in the Bible. It all begins with hope...you hope there is a God, you hope Jesus was his only Son, and you hope that there is something out there that is a whole lot greater than anything we have here on earth. Try talking to God sometime. You might just be surprised.

Answer 6

There are all kinds of miracles today but, you don't want to believe them. How about the miracles at Fatima Portugal where 70,000 people saw the sun come flying towards the Earth in the middle of a rainstorm and after it went back up into the sky every-ones clothes were dry?

Answer 7

the parable of God which there are various diverse have been created while the earth became regarded as the middle of each little thing. of direction it became additionally flat returned then. All religions have one subject in consumer-friendly. They promise you will stay continuously in a appropriate place. in case you refuse to have faith and supply them money, you will flow to a bad place to be tortured continuously. for my area i do no longer think in such issues however the Muslim's offering each and all of the virgins and killing or enslaving all non-believers seem the main persuasive in case you're into faith. Christians do no longer permit you kill those that have faith diverse from you or promise a number of those dissimilar youthful warm sexual companions, a minimum of for the adult adult males. women human beings are definitely subhuman and known to be sources so I see no benefit for them to choose this faith. i actually love women human beings so i do no longer think Islam treats them spectacular. masking their face and our bodies??? i like going to Clearwater coastline and observing the girls working around with just about no longer something on. i won't be able to understand why muslim adult adult males might discover this offensive. definitely all religions are finished bullshit, there is rather no evidence everywhere of the existence of any god of any faith. If there is, i might prefer to work out it. maybe I could invent a clean faith. i'm advantageous i ought to think of of extra ideal rewards to furnish human beings of their "afterlife". I definitely might use the dissimilar virgin reward of the muslims. even maybe incorporate sluts via fact they are alot of exciting and a impressive style of adult adult males might choose them. Brainstorm... non-believers could be sent to hell the place each and all of the gays could be waiting for them. it rather is horrifying as hell, worse than burning continuously.

Answer 8

Yeah, I thought this same thing this morning. God hands us a 2000 year old book written by men, that seems to borrow heavily from surrounding pagan religions, has little historical record outside itself, is contradictory, and self-fulfilling. Yet, we are told to believe it or roast in hell. Makes no sense.

Answer 9

I've heard it argued that the speed in which the religion was spread was supposed to be enough proof, and enough of a miracle, to show evidence to anyone who needed it.

I didn't say it was a good argument.

Answer 10

The number of instances where God manifested himself physically is quite limited, as is the number of people who witnessed such manifestations. Believers in the Old Testament had their faith confirmed in the same way we do now, by having God fulfill his promises in the life of the believer.