Hiddenness of God

Melanie asked if she could talk with me about faith in God. Or her lack of faith. More precisely, her former faith. I agreed. At dinner in a large cafeteria, we sat together. Six other college students gathered around to listen in. Melanie recounted...

In my prior post I told of my conversation with Melanie the agnostic, and how she'd gotten a bit miffed at me for something I'd said. Spiritual conversation is an imperfect art for me, I admit. Melanie's main claim...

Last time I recounted how Melanie the agnostic was feeling stuck. She wanted to believe in God but simply didn't. How could she get her former faith ignited and moving again? I agreed with Melanie that while you cannot make yourself...

In my prior post I posed the question of why Jesus might not want to make himself known, plainly, to everyone. In Mark 4 and elsewhere he seems to indicate that one of the purposes of his parables is to partially obscure...

A question (or objection) I hear regularly in my travels to college campuses is why God doesn't make himself known to everyone, plainly and clearly. One skeptical student put it this way: "Your god sends billions of people to...

A Sampling of God's Clues Last post I mentioned that God doesn't offer proof of his existence. Rather, he leaves clues, of which I will mention three: 1. Nature God's revelation in nature is open to interpretation. The believer...

In the prior post, I suggested that God probably does not attempt to make himself plain to every person on the planet. In his fine book, The Reason for God, Timothy Keller suggests that God doesn't offer proof of...

In my last post I asked the question of whether God's two main forms of revelation -- general and special -- make God sufficiently obvious, to the point where you couldn't miss him. General revelation, as you'll recall, is God's self-disclosure...

A religious skeptic at a state school in the midwest asked me this question: Why doesn't God make himself more obvious? The skeptic went on to note the seriousness of the issue: If the Christian God is real, believers...