Is there any GOOD reason that God does not overtly reveal himself and speak to humankind plainly?

Question

Yes, Jesus, I know. I've never met Jesus.

Answer 1

I have met Jesus.
You can know Him through His Holy Spirit.
He gives His Spirit to those who obey Him.

Answer 2

God only reveals himself to those that are open and ready for it. He does not answer to ultimatums. You can't just say "God appear to me or you do not exist." I mean honestly, do you respond to threats like that?

Also, God often does reveal himself, its just very subtle. The term "God works in mysterious ways" is very true. For example, say you pray to make more money. Then the next day you loose your job. You may see that as God totally dissing you, or not even existing. But maybe because you spent so much time being angry and hurt, you missed the oppoortunity that God laid out to get a new job. Maybe he meant that as a motiviation for you to look in the classifieds, or talk to friends etc.

OR by about 5 or 6 most kids realize that no matter how much they may want something, how much they beg and plead, sometimes there parents say no. We also experience this many times in our adoloscent and adult lives. Yet, when it comes to God, we expect to just pray, and get what we want. Well if you do believe in God, don't you think he would know whats best for you? He is after all omni present. So maybe you pray for a raise at work and don't get it, and you think you've been ignored. You don't see the big picture that maybe that raise wasn't right for you. You continue to do the same job, then get an even better job offer, better then the tiny raise you were asking for. Many people by now will think this has nothing to do with God. But how do we know it doesn't? How do we know that he didn't have better perspective, and knew what was best for us? Better then we knew ourselves?


Truthfully I don't think there are any easy answers to your question. I think the basic answer is that often we don't look hard enough. In todays age we expect some sort of extreme reveal, nothing subtle.

Answer 3

He did before Jesus. He will again when Jesus returns. We are now in a period of making decisions on our own. If we decide to accept Jesus, He will speak to us through His Holy Spirit. Not audibly. It is often a nagging feeling that causes us to respond. Other times, it is a specific need to do or say something. Don't know when Jesus is coming back to earth, but based on the signs and happenings that we are told of, it may not be very long. But, no one knows exactly when.

Answer 4

Simple question. Nobody ever seen God before because if he did all people will believe in him. The point is to believe with no concrete proof, it's a test, that's what we're doing on earth. We're living an exam.
If Jesus was God and/or the son of God and he came to earth for the purpose of making people believe in him he would have succeeded 100%. And don't tell me he intended this for himself, torchered and crusifide, before you let anything bad hapen to you or your son. God's size is bigger than the universe.

Answer 5

in accordance to the bible: for a time guy ought to work out God and/or His direct manifestation, and yet guy doubted Him. God distanced and had prophets to speak for Him, and guy killed his prophets and did no longer have faith added. God sent Christ, finished miracles, confirmed what real compassion and love recommend, and the Jews crucified him as a disgraced guy. guy has long previous a protracted way farther from being with God. Now He watches how men baffle and debate approximately His very existence that men as quickly as took with no attention. I wager how stupid this has been happening from a view outdoors the field.

Answer 6

Throughout the bible, God communicated with people through different dispensations. Today God has placed people in place to speak to us as he reveals messages through them. This is why we have people who are annointed to preach and teach the word and messages of God. Oh and God can also speak to us through the HOLY SPIRIT. If you are not saved (accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior) then you don't have it. Don't miss out.

Answer 7

If you buy a tank and put an ant colony in it to study them you can't talk to them, you can only watch what they do.

I think a few thousand years ago some astranauts came to Earth and genetically modified our species as an experiment. They were our Gods and maybe sometimes they have a look to see how the colony is going on but individually we are of no more importance or interest to them than a single ant in the colony is to us.

Answer 8

It's simple, but kind of a harsh reason. I am glad that I am on the right side of Him.

The reason is this: God wants people with a spirit that is awake. Those who have a sleeping spirit will probably stay that way. God does not want everyone. He said it many times in many ways.

This is the theorem to work with ( as in proofs and theorems ) :

The source for the theorem is the Bible:
According to the Bible, it is against human nature to want to know God.

Since it is against human nature to want to know God, it takes another entity to initiate the 'want'.

That entity is God, who guides those He wants to know Him even though they cannot see Him.

It is against human nature to want to know Him, unless He is doing the guiding towards Him.

Therefore those who know God and want to know God were and are guided by Him to know Him.

End.

Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to those who are going to be His, and are His people. Some of those people stay committed to Him, or begin to commit to Him, He calls those people 'His Children'.

Those people who do not commit to Him are therefore not His children.

His children enter into a relationship with Him which provide a state of being referred to by Jesus as 'not condemned'. Therefore those people who do not commit to Him are condemned already.

In the Bible, God says what is going to happen. He is called in the Bible the God of Feasts, which is better translated as 'Set Times' or 'Appointed Times'. God set the times in motion with His oracle people - the Hebrews.

What you might be experiencing is a lack of knowledge concerning what He said that He would do up to and beyond current times. So the 'Set Times' mean nothing to you. You have no background in them and are therefore at loss to apply them in a logical and meaningful way.

So what I am saying to you in answer to your question is that God already said what He would do, and in what order He would do them. This is the time of the Gentiles, where He promised to open up His salvation to the rest of the world - the command to go forth and preach the Gospel is being done right now, and we have come very close to covering the entire world.

At a certain Set Time, God will do what is next, pour His wrath out on the Earth for those who might end up to be more of His people. It's the last part of time where Jesus is away from the Earth. After that period which is called the Great Tribulation, Jesus will return in a very obvious way and everyone who is left alive will then see Him. But not until then will He reveal Himself.

I hope that cleared a few things up for you.

Answer 9

Have you SERIOUSLY considered the option that such a being does NOT exist?

Or, to quote the premise of Occams Razor, "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best."

In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities.

Ahhh! Cutting edge discourse. VERY refreashing

Answer 10

The New Testament specifically addresses that issue. Jesus was asked why he seems to speak in parables and code, why not just come out and say it? He answered by saying the truth isn't meant for everyone. That only those chosen will be able to understand. To others it will only sound like stories.

Answer 11

I once read a book about how the problems of life are here so that we have something to look forward to when we pass on, a life thats happier without problems. My guess on this topic is that it relates to that. If he openly came out to talk, no one would care about heaven as much, and its just the excitement of the unknown that makes us look forward to the afterlife. Then we can finally get all life's questions answered, where as if we talked to him, life would have no mystery anymore.