AlexanderJ Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 195 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 24 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/10/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1993 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Why is God silent in this age? There are few (if any) supernatural events that occur today, even though the need for such seems greater than before because of modern scientists and their never-ending quest to discredit God and the supernatural. I know that we have the Bible, God's Word to us, but sometimes it just doesn't seem like enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Perhaps it is because the Church is saved by faith, not by sight. So, if you want to be convinced that there is a GOD, our GOD, it has to come through Scripture, the belief that man needs a savior and that GOD has provided such a Savior, and through the knowledge that there must be a GOD who created our environment, not through evolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,798 Content Per Day: 6.20 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted June 19, 2012 Is He silent? Not to me. For those who demand proof of His existence, no proof will ever be enough. Not even all of those who saw Jesus believed. Remember that Jesus said no proof would be given except for the sign of Jonah. Matthew 12 38 ¶ Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we want to see a sign from you. 39 But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And there shall be no sign given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so the Son of man shall be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the proclaiming of Jonah, and behold, One greater than Jonah ishere. 42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the Judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, One greater than Solomon is here. 1 Corinthians 1 22 For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness. 24 But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdemoss Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 59 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,402 Content Per Day: 0.98 Reputation: 2,154 Days Won: 28 Joined: 02/10/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/26/1971 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Before I believed the bible was not enough. God moved the world around me in ways that I could not deny. After having read the bible to gain understanding, I can't understand how it was not enough as it contains way more than enough proof inside itself to declare that it is absolutely true without the need for the supernatural to occur. Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,246 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,972 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted June 19, 2012 From personal experience on my part, I would say that when he is silent, it's because I'm not listening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexanderJ Posted June 20, 2012 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 195 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 24 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/10/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1993 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 I'm not trying to question God in a disrespectful way, I just find these things troubling. Two hundred years ago few people denied the existence of the supernatural, but with the advent of evolution, this has drastically changed. I have met many people who seem to want to believe, but cannot because they don't see evidence for God's existence. I find it hard to believe that most of these people unequivocally would reject God if they were presented with more concrete evidence. After all, isn't it true that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted June 20, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,798 Content Per Day: 6.20 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted June 20, 2012 I find it hard to believe that most of these people unequivocally would reject God if they were presented with more concrete evidence. After all, isn't it true that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"? That extraordinary quote is from an atheist. Its not true that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. It is only true that those who are not humbly seeking Him will use anything to justify their unbelief. No matter how much proof they have, some folks will not believe. It is a spiritual condition not solved by enormous amounts of proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Shalhevet~ Posted June 20, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 334 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2,049 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 120 Days Won: 4 Joined: 08/13/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted June 20, 2012 I personally think that our senses have been dulled by scientific explanations for everything combined with all the distractions of the world and our busy schedules. God is still there doing all these miracles and supernatural things, but we are to busy to notice or we have a "logical" explanation for whatever it is. Kind of sad if you ask me. I notice God's glory much more when I go somewhere very quiet and meditate on Him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zemke Posted June 20, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,028 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 451 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/24/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted June 20, 2012 God moved powerfully in His first coming as a suffering servant, three and a half years of the miraculous and He was crucified, and He will move extraordinarily powerful in His coming as the King of Kings. He is coming back the same way He left, we should not seek a sign but signs will be given and the faithful will understand. The manna falls every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoob57 Posted June 20, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 35 Topic Count: 100 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 41,338 Content Per Day: 7.99 Reputation: 21,537 Days Won: 76 Joined: 03/13/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/27/1957 Share Posted June 20, 2012 My two mites worth... The ones who do not know God are there because Ro 1:18-23 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. NKJV God simply says you can see how My absence within sin is destruction of whatever holds to that sin... then destruction is what you desire and you have filled yourselves with it completely! Interesting enough is the fact they came to this sight (all) and by choice they are what they are... all people are without excuse for there is Ro 3:4-6 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged." 5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? NKJV God 'IS' shouting the need of Him to everyman... while seeing they do not see (by choice) - atrocities occur before all of us everyday and instead of saying why God we should say Lord forgive me... while hearing they do not hear (by choice) - we have distinction of sounds formed to further our understanding of sight (block your hearing for a time an know its importance)... In fact the whole of creation is focused upon the revelation of The Truth of God and it is so loud that in the end Ro 14:11-13 11 For it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God." 12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. NKJV God is not quite as life itself 'IS' in Him alone ... and all men will confess this before Him by the overwhelming concession of here and now that has been present since the beginning! Love, Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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