About Time God Did Something Isn't It?

[joko]

a question for the theists. (for ' god' read 'any and all gods')

If there is a god, he's certainly had a good innings - he's has almost total devotion for centuries.

well now, he hasn't any more... billions of people are losing faith, people are doubting, people are starting to turn away - so why doesn't he do anything about it?

if a businessman is losing loyal customers interest, he doesn't just clam up and hide, he steps it up a notch, he comes out all guns blazing with a new plan to win back his followers. he tries hard to prove himself worthy again.

why doesn't god think - 'Oh eck, i'm losing them, i best give them something to reaffirm their faith in me'?

not small wishy-washy seemingly inconsequential things, but something big - you know like all those 'WOW' things he has apparently done in the past that prove his existence - anything would do really - it'd only take one totally convincing and undeniable thing for many to go back to him

so why is he seemingly content to just lose his flock?
what is he going to do when majority of the world no longer believes? because thats the way its heading.

i know many will say he cannot prove it, because proof denies faith and without faith he is nothing - but supposedly lots of things already prove he exists don't they?
well according to him they do -

Us, for start...we are so amazing we MUST be made by god - therefore that is him giving 'proof' ... then there's the earth - making a planet in 7 days is a pretty big deal and proves he exists too - doesn't it?

and also animals, good deeds, well everything, as well as all the other showy things hes done - surely doing stuff like that was proving his existence?

[jomifl]

Enough guessing games Iam.. tell us who the 'emissary' is. I do like the idea of giving someone free will and then punishing them when they use it. It seems like a nasty trick to me, but that's gods for you.

[chrisgel]

We are told that god is good and that he is incapable of doing evil. In fact that he is the epitomy of goodness.
Therefore god has no free will
If he doesn't have free will then he doesn't know what free will is.
How then can an all powerful all seeing god create us with an attribute he cannot even comprehend.

[Khandro]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emissary_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

[jomifl]

Thanks Khandro, all is crystal (dilithium)clear now.

[naomi24]

Ah, so that's it! And there's me thinking of the wrong four books. Duh! ;o)