Why doesn't God appear to me?

[mikekle]

No response!

Well, God created Hell specifically for Satan and the demons, to be their place of punishment and bondage. I dont know if humans create their own ‘hell’ in their own minds and when they die, they end up in some kind of eternal dream like state.

I think everyone, when asked about Hell, has their own version of what it looks like and what it is like to be there…so maybe this is what we experience upon our death, should we die with alot of guilt or sin?

If Hell, as a real place, exists, then most certainly, God DID create it, no one else can create places out of nothing.

 

[hasantas]

Am I supposed to wait till I die to physically reach him? That’s awkward

İf you want to hear from a Muslim!

Mankind can not see God on this world with His original true nature. God is not a spirit because a spirit has got a substance out of divinity and spirits get created by God. Humanbeing can not comprehend substance and inner of God. Angels, spirits and other materials are a sort of creatures which got created by God. But there is no place, time, body as we think for God.

God became manifest on to a mountain for Moses to see but neither mountain nor moses could resist for a short time.

God will show himself in Heavens but we can not learn how it will be before going there.

 

[Linusthe2nd]

İf you want to hear from a Muslim!

Mankind can not see God on this world with His original true nature. God is not a spirit because a spirit has got a substance out of divinity and spirits get created by God. Humanbeing can not comprehend substance and inner of God. Angels, spirits and other materials are a sort of creatures which got created by God. But there is no place, time, body as we think for God.

God became manifest on to a mountain for Moses to see but neither mountain nor moses could resist for a short time.

God will show himself in Heavens but we can not learn how it will be before going there.

God, Angels, and the human soul are indeed substances and they are indeed spirits. However, God is the Perfect, Uncreated, Limitless Substantial Spirit, while Angels and the human soul are created, imperfect, and limited spirits. Even in Heaven we will not see God, as he is in his very substance or being, but only intellectually in our intellects and as the presence of a perfect love in our souls and since he will be communicating with us through his intellect to our intellects…

It is also questionable that we would be able to see an Angel or another human soul, since a sprit does not have " eyes." but only certain powers like knowing and willing and remembering. We will know them in our minds because they will be communicating with us through the power of their intellects.

Linus2nd

 

[Counterpoint]

Am I supposed to wait till I die to physically reach him? That’s awkward

“God is not seen but only understood.” - A Course in Miracles

 

[Aloysium]

We can see Jesus.

John 3: 2-3 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

We can never see the Holy Spirit as He is the whereby we know God.

CCC 687: “No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” Now God’s Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who “has spoken through the prophets” makes us hear the Father’s Word, but we do not hear the Spirit himself. We know him only in the movement by which he reveals the Word to us and disposes us to welcome him in faith. The Spirit of truth who “unveils” Christ to us “will not speak on his own.” Such properly divine self-effacement explains why “the world cannot receive [him], because it neither sees him nor knows him,” while those who believe in Christ know the Spirit because he dwells with them.

We can Know the Father.

John 14: 9-20 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. . . And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.