Why won't God answer me?

[Umaro]

" So that you avoid looking as if you're simply playing the devil's advocate, please provide the scientific basis for offering up as valid the idea of an "eternal earth.""

I should have said universe, which is what I meant, although Bespin made a good point that I will have to look into.

 

[Reformationist]

I should have said universe, which is what I meant, although Bespin made a good point that I will have to look into.

Substituting "universe" in place of "earth" doesn't invalidate my question. If your basis for what you believe is the scientific method, why proffer possibilities for existence that even the scientific community does not endorse as valid?

God bless

 

[Umaro]

"why proffer possibilities for existence that even the scientific community does not endorse as valid?"

Science doesn't claim to know what was before the big bang, or where the matter came from.

 

[Reformationist]

Science doesn't claim to know what was before the big bang, or where the matter came from.

First off, science doesn't claim that the "big bang" is anything more than a theory. Secondly, if you know this, why are you more apt to submit as more likely, the idea of either the big bang or an eternal universe?

I'm curious, does it bother you that science, which you claim to so heavily rely on for your answers on these issue, has no explanation for the origins of matter?

God bless

 

[seajoy]

" The Bible never tells us that God reveals Himself to us when we dare Him to, but only when we repent and put our faith in Christ. Requirement for what, exactly? Faith in God? Certainly not!"

The way I see it is if God only reveals himself after you put faith in him, then blind faith is a requirement

God puts the faith in Him, in us...we don't put faith in God in our own heads...but our rejection of God comes from us.

You are putting too much pressure on yourself to have to have it all proven to you. None of it will ever make sense to your sinful, human mind. God takes care of your faith for you...just trust that, and the miracle of faith will have already begun in you.

 

[looksgood]

but then why can't our world have always existed?

So basically you are saying you believe that in the beginning dirt...

I believe in the beginning God...

Lets not go further back than these two since ultimately one of these MUST be omnipotent having always existed. If in the beginning dirt existed I ask you where did free will, thought, imagination, and all laws that govern the physical nature of the universe come from? How much faith does it take to believe the universe came from a dense ball of matter that exploded without a cause?

Put another way, how much faith does it take to believe there is a being greater than us who used His wisdom to make the universe and He is not limited by the same laws of time and physical laws since He made them to govern the universe?

Takes more faith to believe in the beginning nothing happened and that’s why everything happened.

 

[Rafael]

As you know, I am an athiest, but that does not mean I reject anything. I simply don't believe there is a God until I am presented with further evidence, much like how science works.
Anyways, I've read several places on this forum that one must only call out to God for him to touch your heart, yet I tried this, and nothing happened. I know blind faith is one of the requirements, but I can't just lie to myself until I have it. Actually, why is blind faith a requirement? God reveals himself directly to thousands of people in the Bible.
Back to my question though. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have the method wrong? The call I spoke aloud was: God, in the interest of knowledge I request you reaveal yourself to me, so that I may know if you truly exist or not.

You are like me and all men who are born blind to so much of the real. We see so little of the dimensions we exist in yet demand that God bow His knee to our will when He speaks to us with every second of life we have. What does He say with each living breathing minute of life to mankind? Does it match the truth He has given us to verify with in the scriptures? It does, but first we have to realize how blind we are and ask Hm for help in seeing the big picture of life we are given.
We think we are so smart as to imagine all this existence and then be able to tell God how to bring about what we try and call love or life itself. How does a Creator reveal Himself to His creation. With creation, of course, and we have yet to give life and create a blade of grass or an amoeba with our knowledge. Well, we would say, snap your fingers and tell God to do it, but do we know that is all it takes? No, we do not have a clue, yet in our pride and arrogance, we demand God do parlor tricks when we actually experience the awesome gift and miracle of life itself, taking it for granted. How shallow we are and dead spiritually. There are at least ten dimensions in which this reality we are given exists, yet how many can we perceive? Three ?Four if we use a clock to tell us the time. All things are made of the unseen, yet we cannot listen to the life we are given and cast evil imaginations at God who continues to reveal Himself and His love to those that wil appreciate His great efforts at the cross and at least offer a thank you.
Why all the blood and suffering? Because God gave mankind a choice between good and evil, knowig man would fall, but seeing that the end would be the existence we have yet better. Love cannot exist between two without a choice, as I know it, but I may still have lots to learn about love and welcome the experience. All the evil done by taking the risk of love will all be udone and made right by faith, as nothing is lost to God where time is relative only to Hs will.We think only in a linear fashion and demand precise applications on timelines while God walks in the eternity of "now" with no past or future to hinder His will. What can He not do? Nothing is impossible for God, and if we stop narrowig our minds long enough to ask Him for understanding and truth, we wil find it right in front of our faces where it has always been.
Nothing is wrong with you anymore than it was with me when I bought into the shallow lies of the world and narrowed my mind to the great and wonderful future God has for His creation in mankind. Humble yourself to God and realize that you are helpless to sin and death without His new nature and Spirit. He gives freely to those that ask of Him, but don't expect to receive by miracles. Expect life, as there is no language more wondeful or complex to learn from than life itself. It is where wisdom is gained. Live!

Eze 18:23 “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.

2Peter 3:9 ¶ The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

 

[seajoy]

So basically you are saying you believe that in the beginning dirt...

I believe in the beginning God...

Lets not go further back than these two since ultimately one of these MUST be omnipotent having always existed. If in the beginning dirt existed I ask you where did free will, thought, imagination, and all laws that govern the physical nature of the universe come from? How much faith does it take to believe the universe came from a dense ball of matter that exploded without a cause?

Put another way, how much faith does it take to believe there is a being greater than us who used His wisdom to make the universe and He is not limited by the same laws of time and physical laws since He made them to govern the universe?

Takes more faith to believe in the beginning nothing happened and that’s why everything happened.

Amen, and Amen!

 

[Umaro]

"I'm curious, does it bother you that science, which you claim to so heavily rely on for your answers on these issue, has no explanation for the origins of matter?"

I'd take "I don't know" over "An unobservable God did it" any day

 

[Reformationist]

I'd take "I don't know" over "An unobservable God did it" any day

Well, that is certainly your perrogative. However, "what you know" does not preclude, or even affect, the likelihood of intelligent design.

God bless

 

[ebia]

Maybe this is the problem right here, as St. James points out:

But when you ask Him, be sure that you really expect Him to answer, for a doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. People like that should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. They can't make up theirminds. They waver back and forth in everything they do (James 1:6-8, NLT).​

I'm not trying to debate, but I think it's only fair to point out that St James was writing to people who were already Christians when he wrote that.

 

[looksgood]

I'm not trying to debate, but I think it's only fair to point out that St James was writing to people who were already Christians when he wrote that.

Still goes both ways.

 

[FrAnthony]

As you know, I am an athiest, but that does not mean I reject anything. I simply don't believe there is a God until I am presented with further evidence, much like how science works.
Anyways, I've read several places on this forum that one must only call out to God for him to touch your heart, yet I tried this, and nothing happened. I know blind faith is one of the requirements, but I can't just lie to myself until I have it. Actually, why is blind faith a requirement? God reveals himself directly to thousands of people in the Bible.
Back to my question though. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have the method wrong? The call I spoke aloud was: God, in the interest of knowledge I request you reaveal yourself to me, so that I may know if you truly exist or not.

As very highly evident in your history of posts, you are clearly not listening or opening your eyes.

 

[Zeena]

As you know, I am an athiest, but that does not mean I reject anything. I simply don't believe there is a God until I am presented with further evidence, much like how science works.
Anyways, I've read several places on this forum that one must only call out to God for him to touch your heart, yet I tried this, and nothing happened. I know blind faith is one of the requirements, but I can't just lie to myself until I have it. Actually, why is blind faith a requirement? God reveals himself directly to thousands of people in the Bible.
Back to my question though. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have the method wrong? The call I spoke aloud was: God, in the interest of knowledge I request you reaveal yourself to me, so that I may know if you truly exist or not.

The Lord knows who are His!
Jesus is His!

And Jesus is the ONLY begotten Son of the Father of Lights!

Isaiah 53

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

John 12:35-36
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

You said you are asking God to reveal Himself to you!
Well, He already has, in the person of Jesus!

Hebrews 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

It's not so much a matter of praying God, as it is to yeilding to His Holy Spirit for the Life of Jesus to become a Living reality!

THIS is God's answer to 'a Living testimoy'

Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

 

[Calminian]

\Science doesn't claim to know what was before the big bang, or where the matter came from.
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I'm afraid the "I don't know" that normally comes, at this point, from naturalists, is a bit of a problem. It's not so much that science doesn't know as much as science realizes there can be nothing beyond this. The BB is not just the expansion of matter, but (according to scientists) the beginning of matter, space and even time. It's not that they don't know, but rather they "know" there can't be anything prior to it. The theory can't regress any further! The fact that the BB needs a cause is a logical argument, not a scientific one. The BB is simply the point where naturalism leaves us hanging. This is why most people in the world reject naturalism (i.e. atheism). Prior to BB cosmology we were stuck with the irrationality of infinite regression. Now were are left with acausality.

The point? Naturalism fails all logical tests. Supernatural theories require much less faith.

 

[Umaro]

"Supernatural theories require much less faith."

How can that be when noone of any crediblility in modern times has recorded valid evidence of the supernatural? There is no reason to believe the supernatural exists, and logic says it doesnt

 

[Yosef71]

If a person don't believe in God, why should God response to the person ?

And most important, which God are you asking for help ?

Are you asking help from the True and Living God Yahweh / Messiah Yeshua ?

Beside Yahweh / Messiah Yeshua, there is no God.
Allah is also not a god, allah is an idol.

 

[Calminian]

"Supernatural theories require much less faith."

How can that be when noone of any crediblility in modern terms has recorded valid evidence of the supernatural? There is no reason to believe the supernatural exists

The question reveals a lack of understanding of the philosophy of science. Science cannot verify nor falsify a supernatural cause. Science must start with the assumption of methodological naturalism before any theorizing even starts. Science can only deal with testable repeatable events. Miracles are singular events that, by definition, are not testable nor repeatable. To try to disprove a supernatural event using science is circular reasoning—drawing a conclusion based on the premise.

 

[Umaro]

" Beside Yahweh / Messiah Yeshua, there is no God.
Allah is also not a god, allah is an idol."
Isn't the god of the Jews, Christians, and Muslums the exact same God of Abraham?

"To try to disprove a supernatural event using science is circular reasoning—drawing a conclusion based on the premise."

I shouldn't have to disprove it. The burdon of proof rests on the claim. Like if I claimed I had a unicorn behind me that only I can see, hear, or feel, the logical assumption by you wouldn't be I believe it because I cannot prove it wrong.

 

[sgrimsley]

As you know, I am an athiest, but that does not mean I reject anything. I simply don't believe there is a God until I am presented with further evidence, much like how science works.
Anyways, I've read several places on this forum that one must only call out to God for him to touch your heart, yet I tried this, and nothing happened. I know blind faith is one of the requirements, but I can't just lie to myself until I have it. Actually, why is blind faith a requirement? God reveals himself directly to thousands of people in the Bible.
Back to my question though. Am I doing something wrong? Or do I have the method wrong? The call I spoke aloud was: God, in the interest of knowledge I request you reaveal yourself to me, so that I may know if you truly exist or not.

You've got the right idea... but it can't be the sake for your own knowledge but for the sake of your eternity! If you seek you shall find. It is not by blind faith that God reveals Himself but in so many ways that we can miss if not for an open heart. I will pray for you, but you are so close. Just by question His existance and calling out to Him you will be blessed and He will find you.