In a myth, why might God let us doubt his existance?
Is he hidding to catch us sin?
Could there be any possible reason why He might make it possible to dis-blieve?
Why would an almighty Creator hide from our sight?
Is there any logical possibility why an almighty God might possibly let bad things happen, even to good people?
Might an un-seeable God be like a speed cop, hiding behind a billboard, so bad souls will give themselves away to our Holy Judge?
His invisibility reminds me of the "Where is Waldo" children's books!
Do you know about this hard-to-see Waldo?
What's up with this "Where's Waldo?" business? He is ALWAYS there on every page of the "Where's Waldo?" book series.
Could God possibly be always there, un-noticed too?
Is Waldo inspired by the difficulty in seeing God in our earthly days?
Where is God? Do you see a parallel with a hidden God and "Where's Waldo?"
What's it all about Lord? Is he there?
Open the eyes of my heart!
2007-10-21 06:16:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
If you were to write a myth about a single almighty creator/god what fictional reason might you inent to explain that he gave us freedom and then hid himself.
What folklore logical explanation might there be.
Might our real life be eternal life in heaven, and our righteous judge is doing the only thing he can do, to seperate the good who go t heaven, from their bad friends, relatives and neibours who have to go to hell (or they'd make heaven into hell)?
Logically...how else could God prove some of our "friends, relatives and neibours" deserved their bannishment to hell???
I figure god lets any idiot who disagrees with his judgement to go to hell with his rapist drinking-buddy, rather than sour the joy of eternal paradise.
Is that logical? What flaw in that logic makes you gamble he is not there, risking hell if you are wrong (and no possible prize for being right)
2007-10-21 07:01:13 · update #1
Even to think up arguments, we need to hear each other out. Let's try logic instead of prejudice. Why do "Fools say there is no God."
"Fools" is NOT my word...it's a direct quote from the book of Psalms!!!
I see logic in giving "enough rope to hang themselves" to the sinful men (our beloved relatives, friends and neighbours) who will falsely say to us that God is "unfair", when he seperates them from us, and all the people getting into heaven on judgement day.
If "mockers of God", habitual liars, bullies, killers and rapists got into heaven, it would NOT be heaven!!!
To hell with them.
God, our righteous judge, gives a fair chance to every single soul!
Abortionists do not! Why can't we all just "Live & let live?"
Logic please, you Yahoo unbelievers, not insults. "Let us reason together".
2007-10-21 07:15:11 · update #2
"God" is "invisible" because God is formless and not a phenomenological entity. Human beings and other creatures have form because they are phenomenological entities and are thus constituted of and limited by senses and sense objects. This concept about God is why theistic religions (like Christianity and Hinduism) and philosophies (such as NeoPlatonism) "believe" that a person is made of spirit and form and that the form is a temporary aggregate of matter and the formless spirit survives the body and aspires toward a numinous divine perfection, popularly termed "God."
As to whether God is always "there." Neoplatonism (a philosophy the inspired Christian theology to some degree although pagan) and Vedanta (the philosophy of orthodox Hinduism) posit that God is "lways there" because God is not personality per se but the "ground of existence," like a movie screen on which a movie (the world machine) is projected. Other spiritual philosophies (such as Kabbalah) also entertain the idea of a "Godhead"--an idea of a spiritual absolute that is not a personality and cannot be said to have any attributes--being transcendent--but nevertheless is the "cause" and the "thing" in which name and form and every phenomenological things arises.
But this is just an archetypal idea.
2007-10-21 14:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I find interesting is you raise a very poignant question but do it with a flourish of satire. Very tastefully asked. And I quite enjoy those "Where's Waldo" books.
In answer to the more serious side of your question, I think there is none. I can offer a suggestion, however, to an alternative approach to this issue.
Another approach might be, "What is God?" Our society is very wrapped up in the very Judeo-Christian idea that God has to be invisible. There are others out there still that would disagree, that would look around them and point out the Divine in trees and stones and animals and people.
I venture to present the idea anew that Divinity is not separate from our existance, that everything is, in fact, made up of the Divine Essence, the stuff of God. Every tree is the Divine Earth reaching up to the Divine Sky, and every wind is the whisper of the Divine Voice speaking to the Divine Spark within every human soul.
Why do we need a God that is separate and overlording? We already have an expansive heaven on earth and a reality that we are learning more and more every day to structure for ourselves. So why bother trying to reach that distant God of Western myth? Divinity is here and now.
2007-10-21 06:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by ybennoach 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To anybody- You poorly tried arguments for god, yet no particular god to verify !!!!! to Memphis- and what does it 'experience' like? evidence from a feeling, basically interior you. you have been indoctrinated. If the sole evidence you have for some thing is (very almost via definition a imprecise) an alleged feeling interior you, you're able to shop your mouth close. the place develop into the coolest judgment? in accordance with what returned? To Tiggis20 & Jano's; If complicated organisms call for an evidence, so might a complicated clothier. break of day: you haven't any longer offered evidence of one argument you have mentioned. Straw guy fallacies- It does not persist with. you have claimed premises as conclusions and conclusions as premises.. and of direction see my final rebuttal IF a complicated ORGANISM demands an evidence, SO DOES a complicated clothier.. SO furnish some actual evidence - which isn't declaring a premise as end or a premise without substantiation "faith poisons each and every thing" "anybody is an atheist approximately anybody else's god, I merely take it one god greater."
2016-10-04 07:13:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called free will- some CHOOSE not to see. Even me, beinig pagan, sees the divine in the world- i just see a goddess too...so i guess christians are only HALF blind- i see BOTH gods ;)
2007-10-21 06:19:53 · answer #4 · answered by ercinc74 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His invisibility potion? Maybe that is why he is difficult to see?
Maybe he is fishing? There are a lot of fishing references in the bible.
Maybe God likes fish like I do - a lot!
2007-10-21 06:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by Toilet Finger! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is it OK for God to say "worship me", when if anyone else said that, you'd think they were a right tit?
2007-10-21 06:36:37 · answer #6 · answered by octobersun 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is no god and you ask a lot of questions!
2007-10-21 14:23:42 · answer #7 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋