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Perhaps God is Waiting For a Revelation From Us

8/15/2022

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William Wildblood has written an insightful post in which he explores God's apparent withdrawal from humanity (bold added):

So, God has withdrawn but why has he done this? Is it because of our wickedness? That would be a reasonable supposition but I don't think it is entirely correct. God has withdrawn to see how we get on without him. We have reached a certain stage in our unfoldment, one at which we have to start developing spiritual insight within ourselves. We couldn't do this if God were there holding our hand all the time. Therefore he withdraws to give us the opportunity to grow but also to see whether we will grow like this or whether we will refuse the opportunity. At the moment it seems as though most of us do reject God when he is not there to remind us of himself. We are failing the test of the heart. But perhaps as the situation changes and our material comforts are removed more of us may turn to God. He is merciful and will surely give us every chance to repent. At the same time, the repentance must be sincere. It must come from the heart.

I encourage you to read the entire post by clicking the link above. 

I agree with William's assessment of our current spiritual circumstances and have made similar arguments concerning God's unresponsiveness to our communications. 

As I noted in a comment on William's post:

I see much divine wisdom in God's apparent withdrawal. He is no longer interested in presenting us with revelations from above. He is patiently waiting for a revelation from us below -- from the depths of our innermost selves. He cannot initiate the revelation but will respond accordingly when it occurs.


William ends his post on a positive (bold added):  

Something like this is happening to humanity. We are being encouraged to leave spiritual childhood and start to become spiritually responsible for ourselves. Humanity is going through a kind of initiation, both collectively and on an individual level. The collective initiation does not appear to be going well but the individual one depends entirely on you. Your individual success may even help the collective.
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johnson j
8/15/2022 22:48:43

If this is true he should have given a revelation rescinding "turn the other cheek first." Because somebody needs to smite the wicked and if God says "turn the other cheek" then goes on vacation, no good people have the balls to do it because they're still afraid God will punish them for doing the right thing.

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Francis Berger
8/16/2022 04:06:06

@ johnson j - Turn the other cheek is like many parts of Matthew, particularly the "the gates of hell shall not prevail" passage. People misconstrue. They interpret the other cheek and the gates of hell shall not prevail passages as calls for passivity and inaction. The revelation God awaits from man has nothing to do with inaction.

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Imnobody00
8/16/2022 02:39:06

Yes, the same as in the Garden of Eden. God withdrew to see if Adam and Eve were able to resist the serpent's temptation. Every dark night of the soul or every degenerate time repeats this pattern. When was God while His people was worshipping the golden calf or pagan gods in Israel?

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Francis Berger
8/16/2022 03:53:48

@ Imnobody00 - A loving parent has a set of expectations for his children when they are children and a different set of expectations for his children when they become adolescents that should be moving toward adulthood. I very much doubt a loving parent would want his adolescent children to regress and become kids again.

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Kathleen
8/18/2022 03:18:38

Very interesting post, I had not considered that God would be waiting for a "mature" response from us before answering our questions/pleas/prayers. Did God ever give a heads-up that this was the way He intended to go? Not saying He needed to, just musing that it's hard for the finite to comprehend the thoughts and intents of the infinite. Though I take comfort in the idea of individual initiation. We are all a tiny bit of the divine, how else could we be in His image?

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Francis Berger
8/18/2022 08:32:16

@ Kathleen - Options for continuing along the lines of mostly external, outward, conventional forms of Christianity have dwindled to almost nothing. That does not imply that these forms are inherently bad or wrong. In earlier a times, Christians could basically click into cruise control and entrust their salvation to external spiritual authorities. This is becoming increasingly difficult today. Individual discernment/initiative is vital.

"Did God ever give a heads-up that this was the way He intended to go?"

I believe the signs are all around us if we take the time to notice them.

Loving parents will let go of their children's hands when the time comes.


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lea
8/19/2022 09:26:22

In line with William's motto to some (or a large or even complete?) extent; earth is a school. And i agree. While the scope of our collective writing has been immensely broad and deep, nearly immeasurable even in some cases, intellectual excercises and comprehension of our (sub)set of creation are not enough, just part of the game.
As i coined it the 'Star Wars measurement' - None of of us have the mental discipline to materialize wanton, yet, or not yet again. Imagine if millions of people pictured some version of planet destruction after that movie and it got sent our way. There have always been safety measures in place, for good reason. We will be granted powers when there is a guarantee they will not blow ourselves up.

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