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What does God have to do to be Real? |
People have asked me - "What would God have to do to make you believe in him? What would it take to make you a believer?" Well - that's easy. There are a lot of things God could do. All it has to do is show up and perform some miracle that is clearly beyond the ability of any human to fake. For example - God could lift up a mountain - or - it could talk in a big booming voice where everyone on the planet heard it at once. After all - if you are omnipotent and created the universe it seems to me that proving you are God is a trivial matter. So clearly God could do it - it's not doing it - so therefore it either doesn't exist or it is hiding and doesn't want to be found. I have "faith" that if God exists that it is capable of convincing me it is real.
I am Marc Perkel. I exist. I am real. And no one is seriously questioning that. I am accepted as real because I have a phone number and I answer it. I appear in public. I have a web site, and email address, a Social Security Number, a drivers license with my picture on it. I am registered to vote. I appear on Television and Radio and do interviews. I go to lunch with people. I have a checking account. People can see, hear, smell, touch, and for the privileged few, taste me. So if I can be accepted as real then why can't God? Surely God can do everything I can do, can't he? Unless he isn't real or deliberately hiding. And if God is deliberately hiding and we can't find him, who's fault is that?
Some people are saying - "Well, if God actually showed up - no one would believe in him." Speaking for myself and all the Realists I know if God actually did show up - we would all instantly believe in it. God should come out of hiding and give it a try. We are Realist so if God shows up, we are become believers.
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