Why does God seem silent today?

[magdelaine1173]

It’s far better that we humbly show our inner selves to God, to receive Jesus’ forgiveness and mercy and to accept the grace of the Holy Spirit.

“Does anyone have any suggestions as to why they think God is remaining so silent?”

They haven’t mastered humility. They either are their own god or they have remade God into their own person image.

That’s exactly how I feel. Good answer, couldn’t have said it better myself!

Keep up the good works!!
God Bless

 

[BlueShadow123]

Satan to me, is a great example of one of the typical guy at work who is an idiot, but think hes the best, goes against the boss, try to gets people to join him and in the end, ruins it for all of us.

Lol, I’m kidding, I guess thats a comedic way of looking at it.

 

[vz71]

There is, one must admit, no discernable difference between a “silent” god and a god who doesn’t exist.

Actually, God can be silent and exist.
Whether or not we can discern God speaking in our lives, we have the whole of creation speaking of his existence.

 

[Anrando]

Well, setting aside for a moment that we can prove that the emotions exist (have you never seen a brain scan of someone undergoing strong emotions? Whatever it is that we call “emotions” certainly maps to certain regular activity in the brain), no one claims that the emotions are magical entities that exist outside of the human mind and grant our wishes.

“Emotions” are things that happen in the brain, things that are experienced by virtually everyone, things that we can detect with instruments.

Sorry, no you cannot prove emotions exist any more than you can prove the color green as I experience is the same that you experience. “Brain waves” prove nothing other than neural activity that is associated with an “experience” that the person analyzed is describing. It is different for every individual. Such analysis has proved that nuns meditating on G-d show brain wave activity. Does this by your argument prove the existence of G-d?

Experiencing the presence of G-d is something that can be measured on instruments, you might say. I doubt that you would agree with that. But my statement is as valid as yours. “Green” is NOT a series of brain waves. Your perception of green may be my perception of blue. There is no way to test this. Our brains may “see” wavelengths of light differently. Since we all grow up with the word “green” attached to what we each perceive we will all answer “green” when shown something that WE and only we perceive as that color. Are we all “seeing” the same thing? Nobody knows. And it cannot be proved. Same with emotions. Sorry.

W.Unland

 

[AntiTheist]

Such analysis has proved that nuns meditating on G-d show brain wave activity. Does this by your argument prove the existence of G-d?

No, it demonstrates that the “feeling of god” – an internal feeling reported by believers in all kinds of gods – is a real, internal feeling that people can generate in themselves. It cannot, in any way, demonstrate that this feeling corresponds to a supernatural entity outside of the brain.

Similarly, we can demonstrate that emotions – internal feelings reported by people – are real. But that cannot, in any way, demonstrate that these feelings correspond to a supernatural entity outside of the brain.

Your perception of green may be my perception of blue. There is no way to test this.

It’s also irrelevant. We know that green exists because there is a certain kind of light that people can consistently identify and label.

Of course all people are going to perceive the world in slightly different ways. That’s not relevant to the discussion here. I imagine that a mechanic or a car-enthusiast perceives a car very differently than I do, just as a professional art critic probably perceives a painting in a very different way that I do – they’ll notice different things about it and literally “see” it in ways that I can’t – but we can all agree that the car and the painting exist, regardless of the differences in our perception.

The point you’re raising here is unconnected to the fact that we can demonstrate whether claims about the world are true or not.

 

[tonyrey]

The point you’re raising here is unconnected to the fact that we can demonstrate whether claims about the world are true or not.

I think you mean:
“The point you’re raising here is unconnected to the question of whether we can demonstrate whether claims about the world are true or not.”

It is unconnected to whether claims about the **world **are true but not to claims about spiritual reality. As far as science is concerned truth, freedom and love don’t exist. We are just bodies!