REASON #9: why not more miracles? - APOLOGETICS WITH PASTOR STEVE

​If God is real and my eternal destiny depends on believing in Him, why doesn’t he prove Himself to me and to more people?

This is not a new question. People have asked this question for centuries.

The 17th-century philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote regrading this question:

"God so regulates the knowledge of Himself that He has given indications of himself, which are visible to those who seek Him and not to those who do not seek Him. There is enough light for those to see what only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition." -Blaise Pascal

And more recently, C.S. Lewis answered this question in his book Screwtape Letters.  In order to wrap your mind around this quote, it is essential to remember that this is written from the perspective of a demon giving advice to a younger demon:

"You might have wondered why the Enemy (God) does not make more use of His power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree He chooses and at any moment. But you now see that the Irresistible and the Indisputable are the two weapons which the very nature of His scheme forbids Him to use. Merely to over-ride human will (as His felt presence in any but the faintest and most mitigated degree would certainly do) would be for Him useless. He cannot ravish. He can only woo."
-C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters)

The Bible says that God had already done more than enough to reveal Himself to us, but we choose to reject such knowledge as we are afraid of what the truth might mean for our own lives.

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. -John 1:18

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