Yes, God is all-knowing, and He does know which direction you're sitting in. However, God is not some genie who will make whatever request we ask from Him.
God does communicate with His followers, but there's a difference between someone coming to God for wisdom and someone coming to test Him. Furthermore, not all people are equally blessed with hearing from God. God's voice is usually not an audible sound, but He speaks though silence. As a result, people who are less adept at hearing from God can come to false or inaccurate interpretations. You could get only one response from someone who genuinely heard from God and gets the answer right, but they'd be drowned out by others making blind guesses based on their own emotions.
Some also pointed out that God is not the only knowledgeable spirit out there. Demons can also alter our thoughts, and sometimes may even share their knowledge if they think it might help their cause. The reason for the success of the Anti-Christ is that people would mistake his miracles for evidence or his divinity (assuming the Anti-Christ is a literal man).
Beautiful! Beautiful response and so, so correct! Thank you.
So if someone says that you're facing a direction you are facing, and they're right, what are you going to do? Idolize that person? Think that person has the right God? Will you listen to them and take their advice wholly? Or will you think, out of N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW that they just got lucky?
You see, I don't think you will be satisfied with one answer. I think you will test and test and test again. And God absolutely will not do that.
What question can you ask that God can answer that nobody knows but you that will be a final, definitive response that will prove to you that He exists?
If there is nothing, then you're just playing a game.
I personally think that you are running against the wind. You are wasting your time and everyone else's time by your bantering about God not being there all the while you are refusing to do things His way and don't really want to prove He is there. You just want to say to a few people, tell me the answer to my question, and that could determine if there is a God. You're told,
God doesn't play games.
But wait! You say you want to play not only one guessing game (which you've been told God doesn't play), but your plan is to play another and another. I know of one man who played a game with God. He put out a fleece, and God answered him--twice. However, God had told him to do something so, to be sure it was God, he tested. However, he already knew there was a God, so this was a test of "did you speak to me" and not "are you there?"
We Christians can hear from God. Most people call it their conscience speaking to them. But unfortunately, being human, we have our own voice, and being human and willful, our voice tends to drown out God's voice. It is only with prayer and fasting that we can be sure which voice it is. So what you're asking these mortal men to do is to pray and fast to answer your first question. Then pray and fast to answer your second question. Then pray and fast to answer a third, and fourth and... where does this end? I'm not willing to do that though I know God would give me the answer.
Why, you ask, would I not be willing to do that? I would not because you are playing a game I don't want to be involved in. I have to work, so fasting is hard when I have to work. I have other responsibilities than you, so fasting is hard to do. And you ask me to do it for a game? God doesn't play games, but I could ask Him to make an exception for me (or you as the case might be). He might. Am I willing to fast to ask Him to play a game which He doesn't do? That seems like a circular motion (similar to flushing the toilet). It also seems somewhat disrespectful to ask Him to do something He doesn't do. So I think I'll wait until it is something I need rather than a game you want to play.
So with mortal man who continually fails, you are going to trust mortal man's word from God to be infallable?
Or if it is not and mortal man's hearing is not tuned right with your every question, then there is no God? Why would an infinitive God play your mortal game?
I do not believe any of the gods from ancient times (who were not god at all but demons playing God) would play your game. They would scoff at you. And you're asking the one true God to play this game? How ludicrous!
To me, the issue is this:
1) You don't want an answer.
2) You want to mock God.
3) You want to come to God on your terms,
not His.
4) You are not willing to give God a chance to prove anything His way.
5) You selectively respond to people but not everyone. By doing so, you again, don't give God a chance. You lay aside reality (first responders are not always the best trained), and you keep insisting that, if God doesn't do for you what He doesn't do, then He isn't there. Wow!
6) Although you've been told how God acts (i.e. He doesn't play games), you still insist that,
if He doesn't play your games, He's not there. Many of us have told you that God doesn't play games. So if God doesn't play games, how can you base His existence on playing games?
This is the third, and last time, I will ask this question.
If someone says that you're facing a direction you are facing, and they're right, what are you going to do? Idolize that person? Think that person has the right God? Will you listen to them and take their advice wholly? Or will you think, out of N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW that they just got lucky?
Let me warn you, if your response is "further testing," then God won't answer you in the beginning. He might tolerate and therefore answer your first question, but He doesn't play games. God doesn't even answer us, His children, more than once! Why would he play games with YOU?
Many Christians have told you that God doesn't play games. And then you want to base His existence on playing games? Do you not see this as ridiculous?
Do you not realize that God knows your intent?
I see it as more. You are trying to test God by using mortal man in a way that God refuses to play. Therefore, you have created a game that God doesn't play, want to test your game on mortal, fallable man, and then said, "God doesn't exist."
And if He were to play it once with you and show you an answer to a question, you want to play again and again and again until the one responding fails so you can prove that God doesn't exist. But you would only be proving that man makes errors not that God doesn't exist. Your test, therefore, is ridiculously way too simple and way too fallable for God to play.
Your goal, therefore, is to prove God doesn't exist rather than to seek Him. And you want to shame a person who fails to hear God.
But we know we all misunderstand Him at times so why would we, mortals, play?
If you were really seeking Him, he would show Himself to you. But you are not. You have found
one more way to deny Him because this isn't your first time. Here's the point: God says that you should deny yourself and follow Him
not deny Him and follow yourself. So you're entirely backwards in your thinking.
Yes, God can answer, but you want to banter with people who just want to talk. You don't want an answer.
If you did want an answer, you'd answer all responders in hopes one had your answer.
I highly doubt God will ever answer you in this question. Try asking a harder question that will be the only question you ask. Agree to some terms, and then see if He answers. God doesn't play your type of game from people who are not really seeking Him.
But you won't do as I said because it's your way or the highway. Therefore, you're not really seeking Him.
You just want to play games. God doesn't play games!
