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What’s your answer to The Problem of Divine Hiddenness? Is it a formidable challenge?
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Your love for the Father is measured in your search for the truth in His Word.
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“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.”
-Proverbs 25:2
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It’s a philosophical argument in support of atheism. From that standpoint, it presents a problem for the atheist who assumes that if God seems to be absent, then He doesn’t exist. The challenge is that it is philosophical, not spiritual. Intellectually (and philosophically) speaking, it would be rather silly to spend time looking for someone you don’t believe exists. You would minimally have to be agnostic to even bother.
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God openly walked unhidden in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. After the fall, God did not reveal holiness until Jesus (Emmanuel, God with us) arrived.
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It’s a completely false claim.
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I don’t think divine hiddenness argument is a very good argument against Christian theism. for the main fact that it Ignores Christian eschatology. In Christian eschatology life is not the end of the story, and in the afterlife when everyone is resurrected “every nee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord”. Now if everyone is confessing that Jesus is Lord, then God is Obviously not hidden from them. The question then becomes why in this life does God sometimes seem hidden? But I think their can be a number of answers to this question. For one thing the belief that God exists is not sufficient (all though it is required) for salvation. so it may be the case that those who don’t believe in God wouldn’t choose to follow God even of he fully revealed himself to them and that the amount of revelation that God gives each person is the best outcome for the most amount of people to come to salvation.
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Not a problem its written all though the bible
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God hides himself from the world.
God hides His deepness in spiritual symbolism, parables, types, examples as well as mysteries; the word mystery was used 27 times in the NT and means sacred secret. Many of the threads written so far here show us naturally point or physical examples of deep spiritual truths. A pearl is used quite often in scripture as one of the many hidden examples
1 Corin 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world (age) are come. example
Example: NT:5178 a : Strong’s: tupikos (toop-ee-kos’); an adverb related to NT:5179; found only in 1 Cor 10:11: as a warning, by way of example, typologically (i.e. figuratively, as a prophetic type, a typological interpretation of Scripture)
There are many signs and symbols hidden in GOD’S Word example Jesus is a Lamb of God; this does not mean Jesus was a bab sheep and ate grass; but where the answer to this example is both in the natural ream and then should be interpreted thought god’s spirit with in you.
There is a simple order that God has established relative to the progression of Truth and to the creation itself, and it is this: “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.” (1Cor. 15:46). This principle is evident everywhere in the Scriptures. First the old creation, then the New. First darkness, then light. First a garden in Eden and the tree of life, then the Garden of God and the real Tree of Life. First Adam, then the Last Adam. First the Passover, then the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. First Law, and then Grace. First the typical Feast of Tabernacles, then the unveiled glory of God in the spiritual Feast of Tabernacles. And the wonder of it all is this, that the end of the Old is the beginning of the New; and out of that which is destined to pass away there cometh forth that which is destined to remain.
And so it was that God called light out of darkness. It came to pass also that from the first Adam there came Christ, destined not only to become the Last Adam (the last of Adam, the last of the old race), but the Second Man (the beginning of the second creation). Likewise, the Last Passover was the occasion of the true Passover that was sacrificed for us. And when Christ died on the Cross, and the veil of the temple was rent in twain–that was the end of the Law, but it was also the beginning of Grace. God always “taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.” (Heb. 10:9).
It is important, therefore, that we should always observe that which is first, and natural, and from the natural learn to discern in what way it typifies the spiritual. If we read of the natural Passover, God intends that from the various circumstances and rituals connected with the natural we should hear what He would say to us concerning the spiritual Passover, even Christ. If it is the Feast of Weeks, then in this God would teach us concerning the true Feast of Weeks, even Pentecost. If it is the Day of Atonement, then let us learn to discern the pattern of the true Atonement. And so likewise, if the Feast of Tabernacles is being observed, it is for the purpose that we might learn great and mighty spiritual truths from the natural circumstances and events transpiring at the Feast.Matthew 13
13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.13:14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;
13:15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’
13:16 “But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;
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