Monday’s Morals – Episode 34
This week’s edition of Monday’s Morals has you playing God.
Many have debated why God doesn’t just show Himself and remove all doubt about his existence in one grand maneuver, thereby allowing people to make a decision based on tangible proof about whether they will believe or not.
Others argue that His plan is more of a test for those who believe, demanding a level of faith and action to set apart those who would be faithful to him by building a relationship with Him even if they can’t see Him, but can still feel His presence in their lives.
Which route would you take if you were the Almighty? That’s the subject for this week.
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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
If you were God, would you appear all at once to everyone and demonstrate that you are unquestionably real, or would you stay in the background, demanding that people establish a relationship with you that’s faith-based first? Why or why not?
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To be perfectly honest, the whole “test their faith” theory does not hold much water with me. There are people on this planet who have never had the opportunity to even hear about God, the Bible, or Christianity in general. There are also people who are raised from a seedling to believe in a God other than the one depicted by the Bible. Looking at the state this world is in, I think it’s fairly obvious that leaving man to his own devices and hoping that he’ll “just start believin’” is going nowhere fast. It’s one thing if you’re a Jew fleeing Egypt and God parts the Red Sea for you. In this day and age, with all the wars, rape, murder, violence and corruption, it’s hard to see God’s face in any of it. You’d have a hard time convincing me that it continues to be fair to simply leave it up to people to find God all by themselves. We’re not the same species we were 2,000 years ago, culturally. We’re not moving closer to spirituality, we’re drifting further away from it.
Perhaps it was sufficient thousands of years ago to shake the ground or drown a continent in water, and people would see it as a sign of God’s omnipotence. It doesn’t work like that now. Sure, some people say, when something good happens, that, “look, it’s God’s work”… What about when bad things happen? No divine fingerprints left on the corpses of Port-au-Prince?
The scale of good and evil is tipping much too at random for me to see where God’s finger is touching it. Is it so hard to imagine that there are people who might wonder why the Bible is full of stories of God showing what he can do – parting the Red Sea, Jesus turning water into wine, so on and so forth – yet for about a couple thousand years, we have seen no display of this “ultimate power” of any kind? If the Lord hath no difficulty slamming down the gavel back then, and doing things that were obviously beyond the scope of man’s capability, then what’s stopping Him now?
Surely enough innocent blood has been spilled by now that we can get over a forbidden apple being bitten into? How about some leadership instead of holding a grudge for thousands of years? How many wars are fought over a dispute over whose god is the real one? And how many of those wars could be ended simply by whoever or whatever is out there (assuming something is) making it clear once and for all that there is a purpose to all this insanity?
Absolutely I would make it known, without a shadow of doubt, who I am and what I am. I would find it incredibly cruel not to do so.
I may have come on a little strong.. Guess I had to get that stuff off my chest.