# Where did God go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 8, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030 "2001-06-08T06:29:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PerfectDark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@PerfectDark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerfectDark)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030/21 "2001-06-09T06:11:10Z")
Todd is at a better place. oops… meant God. PerfectDark ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030/22 "2001-06-09T08:28:06Z")
**Kimstu** Of course. Poly did the right thing. **Tim** > [@](#): > > Thus the base of my original question; is this how God has said He will show himself? I see Him not until I need Him most. I am, and was, looking for assurance that there is no great current to be felt in my mind or in my chest, but only a slow undertow, unfelt until most needed. This is the Hand of God? Yes. “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” — Jesus ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030/23 "2001-06-10T14:10:35Z")
I’m Jewish, so I’ll be focusing on the Books Of Moses. Whether you read them as fact or parable isn’t relevant to my point. ``` Only a few people are warned to leave Sodom and Gommorah. If a caravan of tourists had visited either city the next week, they would have found ruins. But no angels with megaphones saying "This flaming crater brought to you by God! Yes, God!" Very likely, the tourists would conclude that the cities had gone to war and demolished each other. Abraham speaks with God. Sarah never does. Moses alone sees a burning bush. Sure all of Egypt witnessed the plagues, but Moses is alone again on Sinai. The flaming pillar that leads the Israelites is a rare public appearance. In general, God chats with one prophet who goes out and leads the people. It could very well be that such prophets are among us now, some totally unrecognised. ``` OR God acts laregly to instruct and preserve the Israelites. Since the group was musch smaller then, it needed more protecting. Thus, the Ten Plagues. Yes, six million Jews died in the Holocaust, but we survived without an obvious miracle. From the Holocaust, came the modern nation of Israel. Now that the Talmud is available on the web, the odds of a mad king destroying the Jews are lower than ever. The same argument could be made for Christianity or Islam. These faiths have more than enough members to defend themselves without miracles. ``` Witnessing Warning I have experienced that voice, gentle and strong at once, that gives me the hope and strength to go on. That indeed is the hand of God. I'm no saint either, but I know the hand of God when I see it. Forget the bible, if you want answers look within. ``` End Of Witnessing-We Now Return You To Doc’s Usual Bad Puns As far as miracles go, I think discussing the nature of faith and God with magnetic media and fiber optic cables and people spread out over at least one continent is pretty impressive. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030/24 "2001-06-10T14:12:55Z")
Or maybe He just retired to Miami. The climate is good and you’re never far from a nice Deli ---
**Author:** ![shagadelicmysteryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@shagadelicmysteryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shagadelicmysteryman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030/25 "2001-06-12T00:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NiceGuyJack \* > \*\*Who wrote the holy books? People with faults like you and me who took it upon themselves to enterpret Gods will. > > Holy rollers of Judea and other points around the eastern mediteranean. > > What makes you think that people were different a few thousand years ago? It’s the same scam. > > Jack > > \*\* Well, I’m not an advantageously overeccentric religious person here, but the entire purpose of this whole webpage it to fight ignorance. And if you’re gonna attack religion and the people who wrote the bible, you need to get it straight. The best way to defeat your enemies is to educate yourself about them. People did not take it upon themselves to write god’s word. If I’m not mistaken, they were chosen as prophets as God’s word by God himself.(ex.-Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Malachai…) And if God is God, I don’t think he’d let a lose interpretation of his word slide by. However, I will attack Pat Robertson and the lady with Purple Hair on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Wait a minute…I’m gettin an idea…Pat Robertson and Purple Hair…put the two together…A religious white Rupal!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-god-go/68030.md?page=1)