HOW GODS HIDDENNESS SHOWS HE DOES NOT EXIST Christians say God exists but is hidden. They say God has given us the gift of free-will and he remains hidden because he wants us to believe in him of our own free-will. Free-will is so IMPORTANT that God will allow people whom he loves, millions of them, to be tortured forever rather than reveal himself to them and thus deprive them of their free-will. But there is another reason God could be hidden—because he does not exist. How can we decide which reason for Gods hiddenness is correct? If God does not exist, that is a perfect reason for his hiddenness and that needs no assumptions, interpretation or explanation. It is Occams Razor perfect! It is much more complicated to explain Gods hiddenness if we assume he exists. For a start, the God of the Bible cannot be completely hidden. God was forced to reveal himself to at least one person otherwise none of us would have ever heard about him. In fact, the God of the Bible is said to have revealed himself, and engaged in conversation, with many people from Adam and Eve, through Abraham and Moses to a bag full of prophets. Did God have to deprive all these people of their free-will in order to reveal himself to them? Given the vital importance of free-will, that is unthinkable. Did God change his mind? Did he want our distant relatives to know he existed without exercising free-will but then changed his mind and decided modern people must only believe through their free-will? That seems highly unlikely. The Bible tells us that God is perfect and never changes. If God remains hidden, how does he expect we can believe in him? We can only believe by assuming that the men who wrote about him were themselves truthful and not deceived. But there is absolutely no reason why anyone should assume that. The men who wrote about God were evidently superstitious, believed in magic, had a pitifully primitive understanding of the universe and lived at a time when every group had their own invented gods. If we assume God exists, his hiddenness is incoherent. If we assume God does not exist, hiddenness logically follows—non-existence entails hiddenness. Honestly, there is only one conclusion that makes sense. God is not hidden—God does not exist. Ijabla Raymond Derek Hall
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:37:58 +0000
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