Christians...?

Question

If God wants everyone to hear the gospel and be saved, why doesn't he tell them?

There's people who have never even heard of God that would listen to him at this very moment, but he remains silent. If Christianity were true, then the Gospel would have been preached to each and every one of us directly, and correctly, by God--just as it supposedly was to the disciples who walked and talked and dined with God Himself, or to the Apostle Paul, who claimed to have had actual conversations with God, and to have heard the Gospel directly from God Himself. Was their free will violated? Of course not. Nor would ours be.

Answer 1

How can you suppose you know so much when you are so igonrant?
He told YOU to go and tell them.
That is why you are lost and others will suffer - because of your neglect.
Thank God some are taking the commands of God seriously.

http://www.asiaharvest.org/

Answer 2

Well, you've gotten some pretty good answers, but I'd like to share mine. I think it's an interesting question.

I don't believe that if God DOESN'T reveal Himself, it's because it's a "violation of free will." How would it be? It has nothing to do with free will.

What I think has happened is that the old prophets have "dried up"...much the same way they did in the four hundred years before Jesus was born. Suddenly, God's own people heard nothing but silence.

Then Jesus arrived, had His ministry, was crucified and resurrected. For a time after that, it seemed that God was among His people again. But after a couple hundred years, things had gone back to normal, and God was silent again. Or was He?

What I believe is that we've entered the third age. The first age was the one in which God Himself interacted with people. The second was the one in which Jesus came. And now, we're left with the Holy Spirit.

In places where missionaries have gone, they've found people who already knew there was a God. They had had dreams, or visions, in which God spoke to them. And when the missionaries shared the Bible with them, they KNEW it was the truth.

I believe because I've SEEN that God is alive and well, and He is every bit of powerful as He has been over the last four thousand years or more. When I stopped expecting "something, anything" (like I did before I became an atheist), God spoke to me in a whisper. It took nearly thirteen years (preceded by thirteen years of skepticism), but it happened.

Stop expecting. Start listening. That's where you'll find God. It may take time, but it'll happen, if that's what you really want.

Answer 3

I see that your name is Ex-Christian. How can someone that has been a Christian not know these answers. I have to wonder what your relationship was with Jesus.

God speaks all the time, we choose not to listen. He does tell us, over and over, to be saved. I was sitting on my porch one Sunday morning, and the Lord told me, get up and go to church, today is the day for your salvation. No one else was there with me, but the urge was so strong that I was in tears by the time I got to a church. I didn't have one, or know where to go, I followed a car that had a bumper sticker on it, hoping they were going to church that day. I haven't been the same since.

I could have said no that day. I could have picked up that bottle that I was drinking from the night before and never looked back at that moment. I believe if I had, I would be dead now. I believe that God knew I was on that edge of life and death.

Answer 4

You presume to understand God's motives? You presume, as the Christians and Muslims and Jews erroneously do, to characterize him with human traits?
If God exists, and I'm not saying he does, he would not be anything like we are. His reasoning would be something we couldn't begin to comprehend, if he indeed even used any. My guess, not from pretending to know or understand something so far beyond us, but from successfully playing devil's advocate enough, that if he does exist--he doesn't care on whit if you worship him or not. In fact, I'd wager him--being efficiency incarnate--would actually instinctively know that worship is a bad thing. He would know the consequences of zealotry and would be indifferent but generally opposed to it. I cannot see any objective being not looking at worship as a waste of your very short lifespan on earth, and the consequences of which as far more dangerous than beneficial.
For some reason Theists want to ascribe the IQ of George W. Bush to their God, and I will never ever know why.
So why doesn't he tell anybody? He doesn't care. If he exists then you were a chance occurance which him, in his infinte understanding, already knew would come to be and where you'll end up. You're past tense to him already.

Answer 5

Soft quiet voice ringing in my ears, knowing right from wrong and doing well by doing good...
Dang, I left the TV on in the other room and it's just some kind of commercial offering encouragement to buy a product while walking down the food hall ways of substance.
We lack in believing the light will go on when we flip a switch, we are upset when that does not happen.

Answer 6

Firstly, people have sinned against God and this separates them from God. That's why, Christians have to be the vessels to tell people about God. People are in the sense blinded and can never see God or hear God even if God himself appears in front of them. They can't recognize Him.

Secondly, God is a God of free will. He doesn't force people to believe in Him. It's their choice. You have to pay the consequences of every decision you make. This is reality.

Finally, this is the website of the largest church is Singapore and second largest in Asia. Check it out: www.chc.org.sg.
They broadcast their services live and you can even watch pass weeks services online. It will certainly give purpose and hope to your life.

Answer 7

God does speak to everyone through His people. You are commanded to tell others. Problem is, people don't want to hear it.----what Fish said....

Also, someone else said it: We are told to do this. Yet, when we do, others hate us for it.

I doubt some people would listen to God.

Answer 8

You speak this because you do not know God's word.

In the Old Testament God spoke to the people and the people feared God so much that Moses became God's spokeman.

People would not listen then, they will not listen now. History will repeat itself.

A great example, America is starting to accept gays like most of the rest of the world. God destroyed Gays with Sodom and Gamorah. History repeats itself with the evil and will not stop.

That is why we need Jesus.
John 3 16 The Bible.

Answer 9

these are maters in which do not concern you the only thing that maters is what hurt you that you feel god doesnt exist or is unfair these are test you have to over come he will not give you to much that u cant bear it

Answer 10

God set the pattern, explained it by the parable of the mustard seed, and The Gospel was to SPREAD from Jerusalem , and that IS being done, THEREFORE your statement in your question has,,NO merit!