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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've never understood why people who believe in God believe in Him in this way: That He has no real nature and reveals Himself as a schizophrenic God who tells different people different things all over the world. If you believe in a great God who made Heaven and Earth and all that is in it, how do you also suppose that He doesn't have a knowable nature and wouldn't take steps to reveal that true nature to us? And why do so many people presume that He doesn't care how He is acknowledged, thought of and worshipped?

I am a middle-aged male named David with no kids who likes being outdoors, reading and a good steak. If you said you were my friend and insisted on calling me Steve, invited me to your basement to watch child-rearing videos, bought me a dress for Christmas, and asked me out for tofu, I would say you probably don't really know me.

Why does that not also work for God?[/quote]

what?

How do you know this about a god with whom you've never spoken?[/quote]

Back to this. Yes, you can try to live a life as spelled out by the bible and therefore "know" God but in reality you have no proof that God ever did anything in your life. The reason many people think God is hands off is because they have never seen or heard his voice and can't explain horrific acts that happen on this earth. Believing that God is more in control of the afterworld than this world makes it easier to understand atrocities in the world today. [/quote]

We have free will. And there are such things as illness, suffering and death. This lifetime is not meant to be without pain.[/quote]

God gave all of us free will and gave some of us severe pain and others very little pain, in comparison.  Also, prayer works all the time, if you consider that sometimes, the answer is "no."  Another way to explain all this is that life is random, but that would be denying God, which is a sure route to being denied an eternity with him in heaven - a place that's inaccessible until you die and then nobody comes back to tell about it, except sometimes in dreams, and believing that is a matter of faith - another gift from God, which, unlike most determinations people make here on earth, urges people  to believe things in the absence of evidence.[/quote]

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