Monday, February 28, 2011

Claim about the impossibility of forgetting God if He existed

Claim:

“If God exists, it really wouldn't have anything to do with forgetting "Him."”

Answer:

I also exist, but a lot of people whom I would like to remember me, do not. I would like it very much that people would “find” me, but it is not always very easily accomplished.

I might, and sometimes do (at least to almost the same effect), of course stand up and shout: “Look at me, I also exist!” This might help, but not very often, if I really would want to make friends. I think the best strategy for me to befriend people is just to wait, or at least be quite patient. Even hide myself. I think that it is better that somebody else finds my good qualities, without myself always making them very explicit. It is good that people love me and I love other people.

God also wants that we would “find” Him and love Him. This is why, I think, it is very reasonable for Him to hide himself, so that we would learn to love Him even when He is not yet lovable, even when He is weak. This is the reason, I think, why Jesus chose to be such an outcast. Because, so we could see Him to be beautiful even when He was not. Because only in that manner one forms a relationship. And God wants a loving relationship with us.

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