God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. Obviously God has always been in people's lives. But Jesus taught that you should seek for God, for if you do that you will get everything else you think you "need" in life, abundantly thereafter. Why did Jesus tell you to seek for God if God was always there in your life before you even knew it? Hindsight isn't always 20/20, because salvation depends upon YOU seeking. There are billions of human beings on this planet that do not seek for God. They are obviously ignorant. Then there are people that have been in crises and cried out to God and God has responded to them. But they stop there and don't go further, they consider it a done deal and don't have to continue to strive to know God continuously as a real supernatural experience and relationship that is ongoing. They get stuck in theology and dogma, and never progress spiritually.