“What is interesting is God never attempts ‘to prove’ that He is.”
Actually, He does provide proof. This is in contrast with scientific theories which cannot be proved. Theories are either simply well-supported, or untested, or falsified.
Don’t surrender to the secular definition of faith as believing something apart from or against the evidence. Faith is reasonable. It is based on real experience, logic and evidence.It is based on what has been seen, heard and touched. Take the resurrection, for example:
Acts 1:3
[The apostles] to whom He [i.e. Jesus] also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
The apostles who witnessed Christ’s death and resurrection, recorded what they saw, heard and touched:
1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we [i.e. the apostles] have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life...
Faith is based on reason:
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
.....” Faith is reasonable. It is based on real experience, logic and evidence. It is based on what has been seen, heard and touched. Take the resurrection”.....
Yes, of course God reveals himself in the person of Christ. But many seek God apart from Christ and proof that He is. We often hear people say ...”if your real show yourself to me”. They desire a face, an encounter, an experience.
The evidence they might find might point to God but doesn’t prove God is, rather it ‘points to’. That is what evidence does. Points.
‘By faith’ we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command,... so that.... ‘what is seen was not made out of what was visible.’...... Heb.11:3
Creation cries out that there is the Creator......the evidence points to that....but HE does not show Himself creating....especially since he commands and it IS. It is by faith then we believe where the evidence points to.