Way above my pay grade. The Heavenly Father can appear to whomever He wants, anytime He wants.
In order to see God, one must grow spiritually. You can’t put new wine in an old wineskin. You can’t patch an old garment with new cloth. In short... there is no room for God in a person who is already full of themselves!
Atheists are so full of themselves that they have no room for God!
Superb article. It has helped me to affirm my faith in God.
That account by Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet district committee applauding frantically to the point of exhaustion had a lesson about real fear. One committee member finally ceased clapping and sat down, and was instantly joined by all the others with tremendous relief.
That person was arrested by the NKVD and as he was being beaten in a Lubyanka torture cell, the officer hitting him shouted, “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding Comrade Stalin!!!”
The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame. ’
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house—for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
People don't believe because they don't want to believe, not because they can't or there's not enough evidence to convince them. There certainly is enough evidence and it's in the world we wake up to every day.
It's a matter of will and choice.
Any honest athiest can merely look up at the night sky and behold the majesty of His creation. The universe itself declares the glory of God. It’s not God’s fault they would prefer to listen to the whispers of satan rather than trust their own eyes.
God has revealed himself. Apparently these atheists have never heard of Jesus Christ.
I find that Atheists are a PITA. I find militant Atheists to be a bunch of effete, arrogant Alpha Sierra Sierra Hotel Oscar Lima Echoes.
Atheists see God, just like everyone else.
They just reject God, because they are angry.
Atheists don’t need to face God - they need to face their anger.
God’s inside what they’re angry about.
When these people ask “Can God make a rock so heavy he cannot lift?”
The reply is “He already did. We call it the Earth”
The biggest problem with this is the implied existence of a standard of what's "good" or "best" that is separate from & superior to God.
They may get their wish soon.