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Amen! Very well said @freetx !!
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Old Testament God vs New Testament God
God was quite capricious and mercurial in the Old Testament
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Amen! Very well said @freetx !!
Old Testament God vs New Testament God
God was quite capricious and mercurial in the Old Testament
When you think about it long enough, it becomes logical to conclude that God must remain hidden from us. He can't intervene in every event nor right every wrong. If he did, then we humans would lose all moral agency as we would depend on God for everything and stop spiritually growing.
Thomas Acquinas takes it even a step further and says that a world in which God intervened to right every wrong would violate natural law thus make the world incomprehensible for humans. Thus, it is a gift that he doesn't constantly intervene since it gives us a world we can come to understand (ie. science, medicine and 99% of human knowledge wouldn't exist if God constantly intervened).