Post by Murph on Apr 15, 2024 8:01:31 GMT -6
Why Does God Require Faith Without Sight?
One of the most perplexing questions of the faith is this, “Why doesn’t God just reveal Himself? Why does He require us to believe what we can’t see?” It certainly would seem much easier to be a Christian if we could look up and see Jesus looking down at us. The preparations required to debate an atheist would consist of memorizing the following argument, “Look up.” A three-year-old could defeat Richard Dawkins with enough time to go home and color within the lines. That scenario seems a lot easier and, dare I say, better. Easter would be a lot more glorious, we think, if Christ manifested Himself in our services. Certainly, many more Easter visitors would become true Christians.
But God’s ways are not our own. He withholds the healing that seems like such a good thing. He allows unbelief to grow and Christianity to shrink in America. He sees the starving children and does not rain down manna upon them. He does and doesn’t do the things that we don’t and would do. Why?
In the realm of faith, all Christians understand that God does not unequivocally “prove” Himself because such a thing is impossible. There are no states of affairs that could be obtained in which every person everywhere will say, “Yes, God exists, and His name is Christ,” while they are still free to reject Him. So long as the option to reject God exists, people will exercise it even if the risen and ascended Christ were to sit down on their couch. Such an event would likely be “a figment of my imagination” or a “corporate hallucination” if others were to see Him as well.
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