The mysteries of divinity
From what I understand, you claim that God is hidden in our day. My question is, do you think He was ever visible? Say, in the time of the patriarchs or at Mount Sinai? Did He reveal Himself to the prophets? When exactly did He disappear? A hundred years ago or a thousand years ago?
If so, then according to your argument, the course of events is:
13 billion years ago – God creates the world in the Big Bang, and establishes its laws, including evolution.
About 100,000 years ago – Homo sapiens develops as the dominant species on Earth
About three thousand years ago – God revealed himself to Abraham – since then he has been revealed to humanity…until…
A hundred/thousand years ago, God disappeared and hid from the world…
And by extension, my questions then are:
Why did it appear for a certain period of time and then disappear?
If it is indeed gone, what does it mean today?
If He was never revealed, what is the meaning of the revelation at Mount Sinai?
In gratitude
Doe
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- I have no idea (like many other things he does). I’m offering a speculative suggestion that maybe we’ve grown up and that’s why he stopped “giving us a hand,” like a child growing up and his parents letting him fend for himself.
- Its meaning is not related to his appearance in the world. I do not perform the commandments to receive any treatment from him or for him to act in any way. On the contrary, the purpose of the commandments is that we act here in his place.
- I didn’t understand the question. He probably appeared in the past (so says the Bible and our tradition). But even if not – I didn’t understand what the problem was with a one-time appearance to tell us what he wants from us.
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Your Honor, I fail to understand the arbitrary nature of revelation. At some point, in a short window of time (in reference to the time that has passed since creation), the Creator of all things decided to reveal himself to a tiny number of humans, whom he chose in a completely arbitrary manner, so that they would pass on the divine message to their descendants (only!) and in return they would receive an inheritance, etc. After a certain period of time (hundreds or thousands of years), the window closed and the Creator of all things hid and disappeared again.
This entire convoluted arrangement lacks logic and continuity and certainly does not stand up to Occam's razor. Yes, the scale does not make sense either. We did not need God for 13 billion years, when he suddenly appears, and after a short period, disappears. Likewise, the scale in terms of size does not make sense. In an (almost) infinite universe, the Creator of the world reveals himself in a tiny (and arbitrary) part of himself to a tiny number of arbitrary beings.
I don't understand how you ask a rational person to accept it as it is without questioning it.
A few days ago, a question similar to yours was discussed here (I can't find a link right now). God needs to reveal himself at some point in order to convey to us what he wants. So when is he supposed to reveal himself? Probably when the world and human society have reached the appropriate and sufficient stage to accept these instructions and commandments. That moment came at Mount Sinai. What's so difficult about that? We don't need him. He needs us.
And in general, what's with Occam's razor?
A rational person is supposed to accept it if there is reasonable evidence that it happened. A rational person is not supposed to decide for God what is reasonable for him to do and what is not.
I wrote something similar in the third notebook about evolution. Some wonder why God allowed life to develop in such a convoluted way (in evolution) with a lot of fallout and the like. To that I replied that even if this path is not understandable to me, the question of whether God did it or not should be determined by the question of whether it was likely that it happened on its own. If I don't understand why he did it, that doesn't mean he didn't do it. It just means I don't understand God and His ways. Not really surprising considering the gap between us.
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