Why is God Silent?

Why Can’t God Simply Reveal Himself to Us?  Wouldn’t That Clear Up a Lot of Confusion Real Fast?

What’s God’s purpose with all the secrecy and silence?  For God to love us so much he doesn’t seem to want much to do with us. I can understand that, since I often grow tired of being around other people myself. But, we’re talking about God here, a perfect being, who supposedly created us, imperfect beings. If a personal God exists, I can’t imagine how he could simply sit quietly on the sidelines while we humans flounder about. We have had to figure things out for ourselves, without any help from God. God’s only alleged communication with us, the Bible, hasn’t been much help either. Aside from a few simplistic moral dictums, the Bible has provided us very little information on how to improve the human condition. Fortunately science has accomplished that for us, but it has taken millennia and humanity’s greatest minds. You would think that if God didn’t plan on talking or interacting with us, He could have at least given us some written words on how the universe works, that the earth actually revolves around the sun, or instructions on to build a microwave oven or something. Well, I guess we have the Bible code, if you believe there are hidden messages embedded in the Bible. Not only has God not helped in our development, religion has actually opposed almost every scientific advancement throughout history.

I feel that if a personal God exists, He would have greater contact with us. Could it be that God either can’t or won’t interact with us?  If He can’t, that means that God is not omnipotent, but this doesn’t fit with the picture that most people have about God. If He won’t, that means that God might not care as much about us as we would like to think. I go back to the concept of God held by Deists, who believe that God created everything – put everything in motion – but has not intervened in human affairs. But, once again, most followers can’t accept this non-personal God. People desperately want a hands-on God, but that’s not what we have. To me, the fact that God does not communicate or interact with us is strong evidence that a personal God, like the one depicted in Christianity, probably does not exist.

The Word of God?

Why Should Postmodern, Technically-Advanced Humans Place So Much Faith in What Primitive, Ignorant People Wrote Down Over 2,000 Years Ago?

The less you know, the more you believe. – Bono

Back when the books of the Bible were being written, only a select few could even write, and all of them were male. So, is it any wonder that everything in the Bible is slanted toward male dominance?  Even God is male. I’ve always found it odd to assign gender to God. Why couldn’t God be female and give birth to the universe?  To me, this is further evidence that the men writing the Bible naturally made God a man, in their own image, not the other way around. Did these guys write down what God told them to write, what someone else told them to write, or did they simply write their own opinions and interpretations of things?  I’m trying to visualize the process of these scribes writing down what God wanted them to write. Did they actually hear the voice of God?  Did God speak to them in their dreams?  I have little faith in humans trying to interpret the word of God and getting it right. All we know for sure is that human hands actually wrote the words. In this whole process, isn’t it likely that imperfect humans could have misinterpreted something or even left out important details?

The Bible was translated several times, and each translation increased the odds that mistakes occurred. In Greek, for example, many words have several translations, and the correct meaning is totally dependent on the context. Often what appears to be the right word is not exactly the right word. And who can ignore the fact that there were many more books, like the Dead Sea Scrolls, that, for whatever reasons, didn’t make it into the final version of the Bible. Why were they omitted?  Who had the final call as to which books made it in and which books did not. What was the litmus test that determined in or out?  Were the authors of the omitted books also inspired by God like the ones that made it in?  And how in the world could humans making these judgments possibly determine which books were really inspired by God (if any) and which ones were not?  This whole process smacks of political deals and ideological clashes.

Evolution Discredits Major Parts of the Bible

How Do Believers Explain Away the

Scientifically Accepted Theory of Evolution?

Darwin’s theory of evolution was likely the biggest blow to religion delivered by science. Evolution is in direct conflict with the Bible’s account of God’s methods of creation. If evolution occurred – as nearly all scientists believe – then it discredits major parts of the Bible and calls into question much of what religious people claim about human origins as well as the origin of all life. Having to cede some ground to science, it is now fashionable for the faithful to say that maybe evolution was God’s way of creating life. That is certainly a more reasonable position, based on the evidence, but that view still discredits the Bible. To extend their logic, the faithful have to then ask which parts of the Bible are valid, since the story of creation obviously isn’t. This line of thought, starting with evolution, doesn’t rule out the existence of God, but it should make everyone question the validity and influence of the Bible. The next step, which many faithful have already taken, is to retain a faith in God or higher power but lose faith in the Bible as a book of truth authored by God Himself.