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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 12, 2026

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I keep coming back to the thought that He could at least announce himself loud and clear if He actually cares to be heard.

As is, I'm willing to believe in a creator and lord over all that is, I just find it much harder to believe that He actually has any interest in us humans.

What constitutes 'loud and clear'? Genuine question.

I have a budding(but never actually written up) ten thousand word effort post on miraculous evidence for the truths of Christianity. Unfortunately, I would be unable to handle the blasphemies surely uttered against it, probably I would get an AAQC and a permaban in the same thread. This is why I avoid faith topics/proofs in general(my dm's are open to inquirers, sure). But this stuff... exists, even if I'm not the person to make the argument. What constitutes sufficient evidence?

My problem is something similar to the problem of evil, but it's not evil that's the issue, but unclear communications.

If God is all-powerful and all-benevolent and our cognizance of God matters, then why isn't he just talking to each and every one of us directly in clear, impossible-to-ignore language that we dumb people actually understand?

Instead it's all symbols and vague feelings and reports from questionable sources, all of which make it seem like divinity is a barely-coherent concept kept alive by wishful thinking.

I can kind-of square that circle through either:

  • Lack of power: God created the world and all that is in it, and cares about us, but is not actually able to to interact with us.
  • Lack of benevolence: God created the world and all that is in it, and is able to interact with it, but doesn't actually care about us.
  • Lack of God: The world and everything in it is some materialist accident, existence is a fluke.

None of which seem particularly satisfying, but "God dropped us off with a confusing book and some maybe-miracles a few thousand years ago and now we just need to take it on faith, even though he could of course have angels turmpeting right in front of us and informing us of divinity in plain English on a daily basis, but chooses not to, because [apologetics]." doesn't really it do it for me either. Sorry for that. Much like @KingOfTheBailey, He wired me up wrong.

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