I've also been thinking about those who deny that God desires a personal relationship with us - that He is an "impersonal" force. He's some nebulous superior being that zapped everything into existence and then went off somewhere else oblivious to what us puny humans might come up with on our own. It's the idea that "a god/God" is unknowable or impersonal.
But, I wonder, if those who think like that have done much searching to find out if their conclusion is reasonable. Why, if God was impersonal, did He create beings with an innate knowledge of a Creator or a universe where all of creation screams out design and order?
Now, if God desired to know and be known by His created beings in a personal way, how would He go about doing so?
I guess a good start would be to speak directly with someone and tell him about Himself, right? Yeah...He did that (see Adam, Eve, Noah, Lot, Abraham, etc.)
Another might be to appear in a form that humans can recognize and relate to. Yep...did that, too.
He could communicate directly with certain people and tell them specific things that were going to happen and explain how only a true God could do that and then those things DO happen exactly as He said. Ditto.
He could demonstrate His power through miraculous signs and wonders and rescuing those who believed in Him through insurmountable dangers. Seeing a pattern?
And if this god/God demonstrated that He wanted to be known by His creation by speaking to them, appearing to them, showing His power through foreknowledge and delivering them by miracles, then wouldn't that be evidence that He WAS knowable and desired to be known?
Anyway, just some things I have been pondering over lately. Your thoughts?
Beautifully said, m’Lady.
It’s hard to see what more He could have done to demonstrate to mankind that He’s interested in being reconciled with us.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Just the fact that God has made us his children shows he wants a relationship with us...