Why does God not talk to us?

[Sir Doom]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

Tell better jokes. God talks to me all the time. Because I'm hilarious.

 

[KT Shamim]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

No he doesn't. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes that God still talks as He always spoke and still reveals prophecies to His dearest servants and fulfills them. I can show documentary evidence of this.

 

[74x12]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

He does talk but it's not always easy to hear Him. Look at how Elijah went into the wilderness to talk to God. He didn't hear God right away but first there came a great wind, an earthquake and a fire. Finally the still small voice of God. So you have to have patience and wait for God. God will speak if you do not doubt. Elijah didn't waver. He traveled 40 days in the desert just to hear God and did not eat. He didn't doubt he would hear from God.

There is often a test first and then God speaks. The accuser may come to oppose you. Are you willing to believe God while waiting? It won't always be hard to hear from God, but sometimes it is. Remember you're at war because anyone who believes in Jesus is automatically a threat to satan.

 

[PureX]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

Perhaps existence IS God, expressed. So no further expression is required. We're just unwilling or unable to recognize it.

Perhaps we are being allowed the gift of 'creating ourselves' through our choices and actions. And we wouldn't have the autonomy to do this if God were to give us all the answers or tell us what we need to do.

Perhaps God is more interested in us for what we are rather than in what we do or think.

Perhaps God does not exist in any way that we limited humans could conceive of anything existing. Such that what God communicates to us is so far beyond what we can comprehend that it appears to be just silence, to us.

Perhaps there is no God except the one that we conceive of in our own minds.

 

[Kirran]

'Blessed, blessed, blessed be the voice of God
In the winds and seas
Rivers, birds and trees
Speak to me deep in my heart
Blessed be the voice of God'

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

To the OP. It does indeed appear that in the past, god was willing to talk to anyone--literally.

And often. All the time, it seems.

More: Not only did god speak to just anyone, there were Vast and Amazing and Stupendous even Feats Of Godly Doings too.

From massively large pillars of fire, to talking-burning shrubbery, to floods, ocean-partings, sticks-into-snakes, trumpet-born wall smashings, to dead coming back to life, to the literal sun being halted in the sky so that God's Warriars could complete the Godly Slaughter of yet another tribe who's "crime" was being in the way!

It. Was. Glorious! Epic! Amazing! Incredible! Un-believeable!

Fast-forward to the invention of modern measuring tools.... like cameras, and micrometers, and tape recorders and modern skeptical thinking...

... Suddenly! God quit speaking to ordinary folk. God quit doing Fantastic Things. God quit Striking People Dead Right There With Lightning.

None of that.

Was it the Lightning Rods? Was it the Questions asking for proof of these Godly Claims? Was it the 100% lack of photographic or phonographic evidence?

Was it the ability to calculate how *much* water you'd actually need, to flood the entire planet? (this required a whole lot of previously unknown measurements: The size of the planet, the height of all the mountains, the maths to calculate the volume of partial spheres, and so on...)

The more Humans learned how to actually MEASURE STUFF? The more "silent" god's Stupendous! Amazing! Miraculous! seem to become.

Now, if God was All Of That? You'd think God would welcome this New Understanding... and become even MORE Stupendous than before! Utilizing the new Radio Waves, God could have literally spoken to every single adult on the planet at once!

Nope. Didn't happen. The more humans put the ruler to the world around themselves?

The more SILENT this ... "God" ... became.

How about THAT?

It seems that "god" is afraid of a little measurement! Oops!

 

[Mox]

Is there anything anyone particularly wants to discuss with God?
I mean what would you want to bring up or ask?

 

[ChristineM]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

Which god would you want to talk to you? Ra, Odin, Zeus, Venus, or any one of the almost 5000+ gods (excluding the 33 million hindu gods) people have worshipped?

Personally id like a word with Anoya, the goddess of things that get stuck in drawers.

Id also like to hear some creator god god explain what childhood leukema us all about.

 

[David T]

If it were that simple, there would be only one religion rather than umpteen kazillion of them.

The ancients have a funny story about that. They said God himself came to earth tried to explain it and they killed him as a heretic. Of course a religion formed up around that and began killing people as heretics.

Seems normal actually!!!!! Stupid but normal!

 

[David T]

There's a clue in the question...God doesn't exist.

Just like laws of physics but morons believe there are too. Some physicists are getting this actually. There is just physics.

 

[Sir Doom]

Is there anything anyone particularly wants to discuss with God?
I mean what would you want to bring up or ask?

Yes. Athlete's Foot. It's like punishment for inventing shoes, right? I'm asking for a friend.

 

[Nakosis]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

I use to have conversations with different Gods. Looking back on it these were more ideas thoughts mental experiences seemly placed in my head. I kind of made them into conversations. I'd ask a question and God would respond with a thought, idea even a vision I'd experience.

Many of these conversations were insightful, outside of the realm of my rational assumptions. Ideas, thoughts I'd never consider or heard of before. It was very easy to assume this came from an external source.

 

[sealchan]

Why does God act as if he is non existent?

God is ambiguous...He is not a person living on our planet with an address and phone number or Facebook account.

God is ambiguous..He/She/It goes by many names in different human cultures.

God is silent except to some...or He is seen in everything simultaneously, indiscriminately.

God is our desperate lust to know for certain that we exist and will persist. That too is ambiguous.

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

Why does God not talk to us?

Because, as far as I have been told (really the only stance that supports arguments for His existence because we certainly can't find hide nor hair of Him in our material realm), God is immaterial. Thus, having no physical implements with which to form vibrations that can be interpreted as "sound" by humans, He can't actually speak.

Any conjecture as to how God is able make sound or otherwise communicate with humans is purely fictional. There is no proof of such communication methods available to us to examine and conclude that they are even possible - let alone employed by God. Buyah.

 

[sojourner]

There's no radio. But that doesnt stop people from turning invisable knobs. Whatever works?

There’s no way for us to perceive Reality?

 

[sojourner]

There's a clue in the question...God doesn't exist.

What if God is existence?

 

[sojourner]

If it were that simple, there would be only one religion rather than umpteen kazillion of them.

I dunno... we’re all different and have unique takes on our realities.

 

[sojourner]

How can God possibly get through all the babbling self talk!!!!! Talk talk talk to the point talk is God reinforced by writing.... Really? It's like trying to see the stars in time Square at noon by reading all the signage!!! Stupid and menTal all at the same time. God told me as I walked out in the forest no sound!!! Whispers. It's all in the landscape some artists get this.

Reminds of the scene in Jim Carrey’s Grinch movie, where he’s trying desperately to drown out the Christmas carols...

 

[sojourner]

see the Prime Directive
of Star Trek fame

Oh, that’s good!

 

[sojourner]

To the OP. It does indeed appear that in the past, god was willing to talk to anyone--literally.

And often. All the time, it seems.

More: Not only did god speak to just anyone, there were Vast and Amazing and Stupendous even Feats Of Godly Doings too.

From massively large pillars of fire, to talking-burning shrubbery, to floods, ocean-partings, sticks-into-snakes, trumpet-born wall smashings, to dead coming back to life, to the literal sun being halted in the sky so that God's Warriars could complete the Godly Slaughter of yet another tribe who's "crime" was being in the way!

It. Was. Glorious! Epic! Amazing! Incredible! Un-believeable!

Fast-forward to the invention of modern measuring tools.... like cameras, and micrometers, and tape recorders and modern skeptical thinking...

... Suddenly! God quit speaking to ordinary folk. God quit doing Fantastic Things. God quit Striking People Dead Right There With Lightning.

None of that.

Was it the Lightning Rods? Was it the Questions asking for proof of these Godly Claims? Was it the 100% lack of photographic or phonographic evidence?

Was it the ability to calculate how *much* water you'd actually need, to flood the entire planet? (this required a whole lot of previously unknown measurements: The size of the planet, the height of all the mountains, the maths to calculate the volume of partial spheres, and so on...)

The more Humans learned how to actually MEASURE STUFF? The more "silent" god's Stupendous! Amazing! Miraculous! seem to become.

Now, if God was All Of That? You'd think God would welcome this New Understanding... and become even MORE Stupendous than before! Utilizing the new Radio Waves, God could have literally spoken to every single adult on the planet at once!

Nope. Didn't happen. The more humans put the ruler to the world around themselves?

The more SILENT this ... "God" ... became.

How about THAT?

It seems that "god" is afraid of a little measurement! Oops!

It’s amazing how God retreats further into the background the further the OT story progresses, until no one but prophets are speaking.