You mean no immediate slapping down, or manifestly negative effects. Likewise, positive effects of obedience are often not immediately manifest. Which means that once again, on one hand the atheist charges God for the evils resulting from man's disobedience to God, from conscience to express revelation, and then finds fault when He does manifest judgment.
IN CONTRAST: When it comes to violating objectively true laws - like the Law of Acceleration, or Ohm's Law - the world is, indeed, a North Korea! If you jump out of a 9-storey building, the punishment is not long in coming. If you grasp a high-voltage line, you don't have to "trust" that you will "eventually" (at some later point in time) experience the consequences!
That is a real jump of equivalence. If only a Just God would do the same re. violations of His Biblical Law! If only He would institute a cosmic North Korea, here and now! And if his Divine Justice were to demand that all of Humanity be immediately obliterated: BRING IT ON! I hate this "pussyfooting around.
Which once again, presumes that an omniscient omnipotent being has no purpose in providing man with good things and good laws, and with the ability to make choices, and alternatives to choose btwn, and affect others thereby, directly and indirectly, thus revealing what they want, and making all to ultimately work out for what is Good, with justice as well as with mercy and grace toward those who choose the Good, God over sin, the mercy of God in Christ.
A typical problem with arguments of atheists is that they want to morally argue against the God of the Bible while rejecting attributes of God and what is says as regards the scope of His operation, as if He was ignorant like them, and they were omniscient as God, and thus assert that God "needlessly permits" rare mass extinctions.
YES! And your retort, please? WHY this inequality? Why immediate "slapping-down" when violating the "laws of electricity" - wouldn't that negate our much-touted "Free Will?" - but no immediate slapping-down of, e.g., serial murderers?
Why "slapping-down" of sinful cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum (incl. the innocent children) - doesn't that negate our precious "Free Will?" - but no immediate "slapping-down" of mass murderers - some of whom get off scot-free and/or whose crimes are even ever detected by law enforcement?
Just answer that!
A typical problem with arguments of atheists is that they want to morally argue against the God of the Bible while rejecting attributes of God and what is says as regards the scope of His operation, as if He was ignorant like them, and they were omniscient as God, and thus assert that God "needlessly permits" rare mass extinctions.
Please stop DESCRIBING what I'm asking, and instead just answer it!
HINT: An honest answer might very well be, "I have no friggin' idea why!"
Regards,