If God exists, why doesn't he just show himself so we can put this all to rest?

Question

If God does exist, why not just appear to everybody and part the Atlantic Ocean, appear to everybody at once, create a new sister Earth, or do some other magnificant feat so we can know that he/she is indeed God?

HERE'S MY PRE-EMPTIVE COUNTER ARGUMENTS.

Some will ignore the question and partly change the subject. They will say well we can't put love or our thoughts on the table. It doesn't mean they don't exist. By using that argument, however, you are saying God is an abstract object like love or a thought, not an actual physical object that can part the Red Sea, etc, etc.

Others will say, well nonbelievers wouldn't believe anyway. Well you being a believer, have no idea what us infidels would believe. I for one would believe if God appeared to us and showed us he was truly omnipotent.

Yet others will again ignore the question and say well everything is proof God exists. They'll say the human body, cell, DNA, etc is far too complicated to have just have been created by evolution. They'll say this is proof that God exists. Unfortunately, that's the "God of the Gaps" argument: anything that can't be currently explained (or atleast can't be explained by the person making the argument) is proof of God's existence. Well there was a time humanity could not explain rain, thunder, rainbows, and the rotations of the planets so they attributed all these acts to the work gods. Now we know better. Such a "God of the Gaps" is inherently a weak god, because the human knowledge will only increase with time. Each time we learn something new, God's "real estate" is reduced.

jp79to,

I never said I wanted "God" to force us to believe in him. I asked why not just show himself if he exists. If God is real and omnipotent well then come out already and perform some magnificant feat. Nobody is going to have to force me to believe in him if he did.

Blooz,

Exactly. According to today's christians, you can have a good heart and in fact do everything the Jesus character did (help the poor, criticize the rich and self-righteous religious leaders of the day, spread the peace, turn the other cheek, and fight evil with good), but if you don't believe Jesus was the son of God or that God exists, you will burn in hell.

Answer 1

God will show Himself, and put it all to rest.

Answer 2

Whoa! I can tell that you put a lot of thought into this! The answers are not so difficult, really. ( ;

Just to let you know before I get into your question, I cannot concieve a person caring about this subject so much NOT desiring to come to God. I really see a lot of curiosity in the way you are presenting your question. What that means to me is that there is no desire to come to Him unless He is drawing someone in. He doesn't do that with people He doesn't want. And that partially explains the kind of answer that I would give to you concerning your question.

God does not want everyone, and you can experience that kind of thinking with what Jesus said:
John 6:44
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

God wants the people who trust Him. He wants the people to trust Him even though we cannot see Him:
John 20:29
Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

"If God exists, why doesn't he just show himself so we can put this all to rest? "
Oh He will! But He said when he would do that. God will show Himself to all the world when He appears in the clouds with ten thousands of His saints. He said don't believe anyone else who claims to be Him unless you see that. What God did not promise to do is appear before Israel is attacked by all of it's enemies-- not such a stretch these days is it? lol

I told you that God will show Himself, it's just in His timing that He will do it. I hope you wont wait for then to believe in Him, because that means that you wiull have to go through the entire Great Tribulation, and many will die in that period of time without believing. Please, trust Him before that!

"If God does exist, why not just appear to everybody and part the Atlantic Ocean, appear to everybody at once, create a new sister Earth, or do some other magnificant feat so we can know that he/she is indeed God?"
Because He didn't want to do it that way. God has an opinion. And it was His opinion that parting the Atlantic wasn't a part of the deal. What He did promise is ultra important then, isn't it?

I would refer you to the chapters of Zechariah 12, 13, 14, and Ezekiel 38 and 39. It may seem like a lot of reading, but Jesus will be recognized by the Jews as a nation, and the whole world because of the way He gets in.

"Others will say, well nonbelievers wouldn't believe anyway. Well you being a believer, have no idea what us infidels would believe. I for one would believe if God appeared to us and showed us he was truly omnipotent."

I think that you are right! At that time, they will.

Answer 3

You don't have to see God to beleive in him.

One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked
a little boy:
Joe do you see the tree outside?
JOE: Yes.
TEACHER: Joe, do you see the grass outside?
JOE: Yes.
TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see
if you can see the sky.
JOE: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.
TEACHER: Did you see God up there?
JOE: No.
TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see
God because he isn't there. Possibly he just doesn't exist.

A Katie spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions.
The teacher agreed and the Katie asked the boy:
Joe, do you see the tree outside?
JOE: Yes.
KATIE: Joe do you see the grass outside?
JOE: Yessssss!
KATIE: Did you see the sky?
JOE: Yessssss!
KATIE: Joe, do you see the teacher?
JOE: Yes
KATIE: Do you see her brain?
JOE: No
KATIE: Then according to what we were taught today in school, she possibly
may not even have one!

Well then your brain doesn't exist, your heart doesn't, and neither do our lungs or anything else in our body. Why? Because we haven’t seen them right? If that's the case, then we don't exist. I have never heard of a worse answer of ‘No, there’s no God because I haven’t seen Him’, to the question: Does God really exist? How can you say God doesn't exist if you haven't seen him? Have you seen a hippo? If no, then they don't exist, right? What about a rhino? Neither do they then, huh?

If you were walking and found a fresh chicken egg with feathers, surely there was a chicken about, and that’s the proof for the existence of the chicken, that's the same with this world and the skies, surely there is someone behind it, and that is God. Look at the universe, the body, everything around you!!!!
You can never live without God. No one can. Wait a minute, without God we wouldn't be here!!! He created you and gave you life, of course you need him. Without him, you wouldn't be asking this question and I wouldn't be answering it. He gave you everything you need, and He can easily take it back anytime.

Be grateful to Him that he gave you all this. The oxygen you breathe, where is it from? God is the answer. The food you eat, it's all from God. He gave you the ability to type and read and write do all the things you can. He gave people sight, and others not, He gave you a good capable body, to others He didn't. Why? Why ask why!? It's God's choice, don't question him. Just be thankful, and a lot that he didn't make you without sight, or handicapped or anything else.

The family you live with, God gave you that as well. Everything reflects back on to God, and yet we are not thankful to him.....God exist, how can you say he doesn't? You people, who say he doesn't exist, don't know the true meaning of life and existence. Maybe you don't exist as well? No one exists right? If God doesn't exist then we don't, right?

Answer 4

I understand your skepticism. because the religions do not believe what Jesus Christ taught, they use the entire bible to disort the truth.

There is no such thing as 4 Gospels as men have taught, there is only the Word of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Testimony of the Witness, the record of John the Baptist.

Jesus Christ fulfilled all scripture, that is to say everything written in the Old Testament concerning himself. Out of the old Testament Jesus only commanded us to read one book and that is the Book of Daniel.

Jesus commanded us to read Daniel because Daniel gave dates and places concerning things Jesus could not bring to past or would be fulfilled in that time.

Many of God's people knew 1960 was a changing of the times and seasons and they got this message from the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Answer 5

Followers of most world religions believe that God has indeed revealed himself. Christians, in particular, believe he came to Earth and lived among us. And in his life on Earth, he performed all kinds of miracles like you asked for. The Christian would therefore argue that it is up to you to decide whether to close your eyes to these events, or to accept them.

I think what you really want is for God to force us to believe. That's the only conclusion I can draw from a question that asks "why has God not revealed himself?" when there is evidence that he has. The problem with forcing us to believe is that it removes free will from the equation. God - if he exists - does not want minions. He wants the people he created to come to him by choice. Why? Your guess is as good as mine.

Which brings me to the other problem with your question, namely that it implies we can and should understand God's plan. The religious person will immediately acknowledge that this is impossible. In fact, I think even a non-religious person must acknowledge that if God exists, he is, by definition, bigger than anything else in the universe, and completely out of our understanding as mortals.

Answer 6

I think God shows himself every day in any number of ways. I think that when I look at my son. When I feel love. When I see a story on the news where something amazing or positive has happened in the midst of a war or similar.

I don't think it is possible to prove God exists in teh same way it isnt possbile to prove that he doesn't. The thing is I don't need scientific proof. But that's my personal thought.

God sent his son to earth because he needed to change what was happening on his earth. He didn't send him to prove a point.

Everyone is entitled to their own beleifs but I'm not sure you need to be so angry and agressive. But like I said, you can believe what you want to belive. It doesn't affect me.

Answer 7

Excellent question. If god created us and truly cares for us, why not give us something concrete? Is it vanity? It seems like some cruel experiment to create a race of billions (and counting) just to see who will or won't believe and rewarding only those who believe. Those who question and do not come to believe, regardless of what type of person they are aside from religious beliefs - too bad, hellfire for them! It seems irrational that a kind and benevolent creator would do this.

Isn't vanity (pride) one of the deadly sins?

Answer 8

Because it is a TEST of Faith. Blessed is he who has not seen, but yet believes. I have seen a real angel and it was witnessed. And I was healed from a condition requiring surgery before surgery. So I have no excuse to miss God.

Answer 9

It is A Walk of Faith.Jesus Christ The Door.

God isn"t into" Show and Tell in This , The Church Age.

Show and Decepetion ,is where "Satan " hangs out,I would
also add He is Loud,

Answer 10

He doesn't show himself because that would mean that Christs work on the cross would have been pointless.
Once Christ died on the cross for our sins, all the glory is given to Christ in that sacrificial act. If God just then decided it wasn't necessary to believe in Christ to go to heaven and showed himself to the world he'd be going back on that promise and on his own word which rightfully God cannot do.

Answer 11

This life is a test from God to deem who is worthy of a place in Heaven and who deserves punishment in Hell.