Why Does God Try To Fool Us All Of The Time ?

 

It seems to me that God is constantly trying to fool us humans.  He seemingly NEVER makes any attempt to convince us that he DOES exist, but He ALWAYS tries to convince us that he DOESN'T exist.

With every claim that Christians make regarding the nature of God and the evidence for his existence, the world we live in is a daily - no - an hourly contradiction to those Christian claims.  The world we live in is a constant reminder that there is no god!

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Christian Claims:

God loves us 

1 John 4:7-12  Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.  God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.  In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.  Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

And yet, of those who claim to be the followers of God, the representatives of God here on Earth, there is absolutely no consistent display of "love" that is detectable or observable in their lives.  What is very often on display is contention, belligerence, dishonesty, and hypocrisy.  If God loves me HE should show me that he loves me.  His followers (his representatives) are seemingly incapable of showing me love to any higher degree than non-Christians show love.  In my 65 years of living I have never had any experience that can be interpreted as evidence that God loves me.  This includes my many interactions with Christian and my many observations of Christians, both in their words and in their deeds.  There is no evidence that God loves me or loves anyone.

"God loves us" - this claim fails.

God is just 

Romans 2:6-11  He will repay according to each one’s deeds: to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life, while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury. There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, both the Jew first and the Greek. For God shows no partiality.

And yet, in the world that we live, examples of injustice are all around us.  People suffering injustice at the hands of their fellow humans.  Individuals dolling out injustice on other individuals.  Injustice has been the hallmark of the US system of law enforcement and the courts for centuries.  Examples after examples of people being wrongfully accused, arrested, prosecuted, and punished.  Countries unjustly invading other countries who are clearly not a threat to them.  And through all of this, for thousands of years of recorded history, God seemingly sits back with folded arms doing absolutely nothing about all of this injustice.  A just God is of no use if this God does nothing about injustice.

"God is just" - this claim fails.

God is merciful

Psalm 103:8  The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

And yet, the bible is full of examples of God displaying his wrath - from the invading Hebrew hordes in the Old Testament to the threats of eternal punishment in a burning hell in the New Testament, this seems to be just the opposite of mercy.  Who exactly is God merciful to?  If he is not merciful to everyone then the claim that he is merciful is of no use to those who God shows no mercy to.

"God is merciful" - this claim fails.

God cares for us

1 Peter 5:7  Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
And yet, this is just another empty biblical claim, a vacant platitude oft repeated from Christian believer to Christian believer, all the while they are not even remotely aware that they themselves have never, in their entire life, experienced any "care" from their invisible god who inhabits some unknown dimension.  Their god has never demonstrated any "care" for anyone, ever, period!

"God cares for us" - this claim fails.

bob

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