I am atheist and I have a question, why God did not show him/herself for more than 2000 years since his son birth? I see the sun and it's a proof that it's exist, why should I believe in god then?
When a jet airplane flies into a cloud, you can't see the jet in the cloud. Maybe it isn't there?
Then you look at the long vapor trail from the exhaust of the jet. So, there must have been a jet plane.
You see the earth around you, and the stars in the sky. They are God's vapor trail. They show that He exists.
Then to use your example.....
If I fart, it cannot be seen but it can certainly be heard and smelt. Therefore, I AM GOD!
God is supposed to have created man in his image, so I'd imagine that since man farts, God must fart too. Stands to reason.
Probably follows through on the odd occasion as well, letting a chocolate mini-egg to escape.
Therefore is humans are evil, vengeful, corrupt,etc... God must be too?
Of course. Since God created everything, including evil, he must himself be evil for creating evil.
God didn't create evil. He allowed the devil to use his free will to become evil if he wanted. The devil decided to become evil. Then, mankind extended the evil of the devil to mankind's self.
God created everything, or knew it would be created eventually yet still allowed it. Same thing really, he allowed it to be created.
Everything means everything.No cherrypicking allowed.
God is a different kind of "Guy." Everything we do and think is based on cause and effect. If we hold our car keys above the ground, and then let go, they fall to the ground. We understand things like this happening because of something that caused them to happen. Because we are such cause-and-effect beings, we can barely imagine what pure random happenstance would be like, even a little.
God exists outside of cause and effect as well as within it. God is so extremely different than we are, that He may have existence outside of both, cause and effect, and its opposite, pure random. We totally understand things by cause and effect. We barely understand what the idea of pure random might even be like.
When God tells us that he gives us free will, and yet that He controls our free will to some extent, He means exactly that.
In several places in this forum I have explained how some of it works. Neither I nor anyone else has any real understanding of it completely.
You are wrong about God. He doesn't exist in ways that you can understand. He DOES give free without looking or knowing how we will use our free will... or how the devil will use His. But, being outside of cause and effect, time, the dimensions, the universe, etc., as well as within them, His understanding allows Him to work with our free will in ways that look like He must have known ahead, when He really hadn't even conceived of some of the things that we do.
Anybody who can cause this universe into being the way that it is after thousands of years of cause and effect, is so far beyond us in our tiny, simple understanding, that there is no way to suggest things about Him outside of what He has shown or told us.
The thing that is important is to believe God, even though we don't understand.
