If god is real then why not show himself? Is he a bit shy?

Question

would solve alot of problems if he did

Answer 1

What we really need in here is a bit of originality.
Gods not short on idea's, why don't you ask Him?

Answer 2

Okay, I see that you got many answers that I got when I used to ask the same question. Here is the answer to your question as it came to me:

The proof is elusive, but obtainable. This is the total truth, and if you wonder, you won't have to wonder any more after you understand this:

In the end of the Gospel of John chapter 15 and in the midst of the Gospel of John 16, Jesus promises the Holy Spirit to those who trust Him. The Holy Spirit has an influence upon the believer to comfort and counsel those who believe that Jesus is Lord.

It's sort of the 'missing link' between the absence of Jesus here; the believer, and God.

So God holds onto the proof. He gives it out as it pleases Him. And those that do not trust Him are not going to get it. They are neither going to get it, nor are they going to know that what I am writing here is the truth. They will dismiss it as 'fairy tales' and such.

So the person who it would benefit are those that God has chosen. Those that do not benefit ( and frankly ought to stop wasting their time) , are those who have no interest in knowing God in the first place.

God chooses those He wants, and leaves those He doesn't want to live out their lives.

I believe in God because He put the desire to know Him, along with the ability to know Him in me.

If you experienced the Holy Spirit the way I did, you don't have to wonder any more.

This is another secret that I will expose for you:
What I have been referring to is what Jesus was talking about here, see if you can understand it:
13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4)

Jesus was talking about what I just explained to you.

Answer 3

People often claim that if God would appear in front of them they would believe. They claim that the reason they just can't believe is because they can't see God or any evidence of Him.

So why would a loving God, who wants us to believe not show Himself to us so that we would all believe?


The answer is simple, He tried that once.

God doesn't have to “show himself to us” - he already has!

Look at the life of Jesus; He taught here on earth for 3 years, and many people did believe but many still did not.

He healed the crippled and made them walk, he healed and blind and made them see. He even raised people from the dead.

Still many people did not believe that He was God in the flesh.

The Pharisees and the Sadducees came to Jesus and demanded he show them a sign from heaven so they could believe.

Jesus knew that their hearts were so hardened that nothing would convice them and if they didn't listen to the prophets of old and believe through the wonders Jesus had already done, then no sign would change their minds. So Jesus said to them An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; but a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah." And He left them, and went away.

Jesus was refering to his coming death and Resurrection, Jonah was three days in the giant fish and came back, Jesus was 3 days in the grave and came back.

Seems to me the same reply would be just as valid to anyone demanding a sign today, because 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'

Answer 4

Which god do you wish to see? Zeus? Shiva? The Christian god?

Many religious Christians claim god will not show himself.

According to their primary text, god appeared before Moses and gave him the ten commandments, then three times to Ezekiel (he must have liked Ezekiel more)...and many others. That god manifested himself before a chosen few indicates that his existence is highly suspect, otherwise "more deserving" modern pious people would also experience physical manifestations.

Instead, those recorded moments are merely dreams, fantasies or fable.

There is no god, so don't keep looking for physical proof.

Answer 5

God sent his son Jesus into the world and they didn't believe. God did allot of miracles when Moses took the people out of Egypt and it didn't solve the problems of there unbelief. Even if God did show himself most people would only laugh and say it is some kind of trick

Answer 6

I'm tempted to post this every ten minutes,
Even if God appeared to the human race visibly it would only prove that He IS. The problem that God sites in the Bible is that many people are interested in examining God in person but they are opposed to a personal relationship with Him for a myriad of "suspicious" reasons. If you don't believe me read Exodus24:10..."And they SAW the God of Israel."
You see, God is not interested in pleasing the fleeting whims of people, He is very much interested in developing a loving relationship with people. If a person truly longs for this relationship God will then show Himself to you through His word and through Faith and that's as real as it gets... for now.

Answer 7

In fact, God did show Himself.

Consider John 1:10-14 "He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

Turns out Jesus, the Word made flesh, caused a lot more problems than you would have thought. Of course, he did solve the biggest problem - the one that kept humanity separated from full communion with God - the permanent effects of sin.

Answer 8

The flying spaghetti monster is not real and never will be,
the only people who think that he is "Alive" are the brainwashed Christian population,who claim that this fictional thing has spoken to them on many occasions.I
would have to call them a very disillusioned lot of LIAR'S.
How the HELL does a none existant thing talk to anyone??
We should call the local Asylum to come and get the whole flaming lot.

Answer 9

God will not reveal himself to you. So quit asking. It's not going to happen.

You want the easy way out?

Answer 10

He has already done this in the past....Moses...Israel....Jesus.....it does not seem to work weel since people are still full of doubt, vene in the face of miracles....

God still can do this...but he is very selective now....