Quote from: webster22 on January 04, 2018, 06:38:46 PM

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Why doesnt God speak out loud?

The atheist asks 'If God exists, why does he not speak audibly to humans and remove all doubt?' After all, they say, if God is all knowing, all powerful, eternal, and ever present, shurly He could speak a few words to us. Or is your God a mute?"

Indeed many times in my life as I have cried out to God for wisdom, I have asked for signs and a clear 'Do exactly xyz about this situation'. But no audible voice was heard.

The classic Christian response to this question is God speaks to us through His Word the Bible. He has laid out His commandments, His precepts, and many accounts of His dealings with peoples throughout history. And it is true in the Bible we have many accounts of God speaking directly and audibly to His prophets of old.

But it seems a bit of a cop-out. Why does God not SPEAK OUT LOUD?

I found the answer this morning in Exodus 20 and Hebrews 12.
Let us read:

When Moses took the Israelites to the wilderness, he took them near the mountain where God rested. In Exodus 20:18 we read:

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18. "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

I want you to picture and hear that scene in your mind. Imagine standing in front of such a mountain! Of course the people 'stood afar off'. But look at what it says next:

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19. "And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die." .... "And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake;" (Heb 12:21)

This scene before them was terrifying. They begged Moses to be an intermediary between this 'God of the fire mountain' and them. As they would be terrified to hear the ACTUAL voice of God.

In Hebrews 12 we read:

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Heb 12: 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

Heb 12:26: "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain."

Here we find the answer to the atheist.

God will not speak OUT LOUD as it will annihilate us.

His voice is so powerful, it would shake earth and heaven itself. The atheist would not stand but be blown away like chaff in the wind.

Thank God He does not speak out loud! Thank God we have His Words instead written down for us to read in our own voice. And thank God that believers and those that received His spirit (that cries Abba-father) can hear His voice in their own spirit.

Amen