Is God determined to allow no proof or evidence of his existence?

a common toy in a child's toy box, at any age really, is a jigsaw puzzle. a puzzle can teach a child many things: hand-eye coordination, visual memory, and problem solving. when a mother is playing with her infant son, she'll often first show the child how to put it together, and then let the child go and try it on his own. it invariably takes a while to set in, and the puzzles always get more complex. first the shapes of animals, that fit nicely into holes. then 8-piecers. and as the child masters each one, the parents tend to find more and more complex toys for the child to play with, appropriate to the age and skill of the child. eventually, this progresses to things like legos, where the child can use their own intellect to create their own constructions. and from their, school and college, each developing the mind of the child in steps.but a crucial step in learning how to piece things together is that the parents show the child, and then back off and let the child try it on their own. the child may look to his mother for help, but he really has to learn to do it on his own. it's part of growing and developing. it is neccessary for the parents to be out of the immediate picture for a while, so the child can form those problem solving skills on his own.similarly, it is neccessary for god to be out of the immediate picture for a while so we can figure out how to solve our own problems. we will never learn to walk and talk as a mature species unless god is not carrying us and not babying us. and that requires silence for some time, thousands of years to us maybe, but an instant for god. what god created in us was something that had a capacity to his equal, as a child can one day become his parents' equal. we are made in his image, like we are in the image of our parents. and this is a breif moment in our childhood, wondering where god is so he can show us how to put the pieces together again.

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no, but we're operating on a vastly different scale than god. a moment away for him could be eons to us. i can't really say this in a way the won't insult half the board. so if it pisses you off, just pretend this doesn't include you. but i think it's mostly in peoples' heads. i sure haven't seen him do anything terribly involved in last little while. he hasn't left us, really. he's just watching for a while, holding back. and so can we, as a species, i think. in books like the bible. but i'm talking about a huge difference in scale. i'm not comparing individuals to god, but the whole collected species. this would be like asking if the child's cells have memory direct interaction with the parent. on the cellular level, most of the child is really incapable of understanding what the parent is. even to a concious child as a whole, they might not totally understand in all of the intricacies of how they got to be there. we're the cells in this analogy. and i think, as we perceive things, he is. but it's a byproducts of his temporary non-envolvement. well, interaction with deity seems to be a bit of a collective recollection of our species, doesn't it? what race or culture has never had some kind of supernatural element in their religion?i dunno. it was just a thought, and an analogy to explain what the way i see it. it might not line up perfectly.

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well, of course. all analogies have shortcomings.

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