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Why God Does Not Want to Be Proven

God Is Not in Your Proof

When we try to prove God by arguing and using logic and blasting our opponents, we often unleash the verbal equivalent of hurricanes, earthquakes and fires.

We can blow holes through beliefs, wound people, wreck a lot of stuff. It’s pretty hard  to argue with a hurricane or an earthquake. You can deny them all you want, but they will destroy everything.

Yet God doesn’t act like a hurricane or an earthquake or a forest fire. When God appears as a fire or a cloud of smoke, that’s unusual. He wasn’t in any of those things with Elijah. And He isn’t any of those things to us. And when we unleash an earthquake on our enemies, God won’t be there either.

God has left Himself unprovable for the same reason He does everything else. It’s how He wants it. And no amount of theological nukes we drop on our neighbors will change that.

We live in a culture that values loud talking and louder arguing.

We “fight” for our faith. We blast our opponents. We “take back” what is “rightfully” ours. We launch armies to fight culture wars. But God didn’t command us to do any of these things. He called us to love, not to prove.

We end up talking louder than God Himself because we forget that God is a still, small voice.

Tell me what you think. Do we waste our time by trying to prove God? What’s the closest thing you come to “proof” for God?