3 BIG Reasons Why God May Choose to Hide Himself

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Why doesn’t God make Himself more obvious? If God truly exists, why wouldn’t He just appear to everyone and settle all doubts once and for all? In a world filled with skepticism, doubt, and unbelief, the "divine hiddenness" of God is one of the most common objections raised against Christianity. But is it really a valid reason to reject His existence? In this solo midweek episode, Frank tackles a listener’s question about God’s hiddenness and explores these questions along the way:* Does the hiddenness of God negate the evidence we already have for His existence?* What does Scripture reveal about why God may choose to remain unseen?* Would seeing the full presence of God actually eliminate doubt and unbelief for some people?* How do free will and love relate to divine hiddenness?* Why didn't Jesus parade Himself around publicly post-resurrection so that everyone could see Him?* How did so many Pharisee priests come to believe in Jesus?* Were the angels ever exposed to the full presence of God?If you—or someone you know—wrestles with the hiddenness of God, this episode will help you see how His presence can still be known. Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion on one of the most challenging questions from skeptics!Resources mentioned during the episode:Don't forget to take our podcast survey! https://crossexamined.org/survey (https://crossexamined.org/survey)The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060652934 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060652934)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the midweek. I don't have enough faith to be an atheist podcast.
0:07.0	Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Frank Turrick. I've got a pretty lengthy question I want to get to today.
0:13.0	By the way, if you want to send in questions, send questions to hello at crossexamine.org.
0:20.0	Also, if you go to our website, we're taking a survey on at cross-examine.org. Hello at cross-examine.org.
0:21.3	Also, if you go to our website,
0:23.3	we're taking a survey on our website for the podcast.
0:28.8	We want to make sure that we're covering topics that you want to hear about
0:33.9	that are relevant to apologetics,
0:36.2	theology, philosophy.
0:37.4	And so we've taken a survey via email,
0:41.0	but you may have missed the email. If you go to our website and you go to the homepage and you look
0:48.1	down on the right hand side of the homepage, you will see a little window. Hang on, let me find it myself. I thought I had it here
0:57.6	just a minute ago, but now I don't. On the homepage, down on the right, I'm looking, of course,
1:06.6	at the desktop version. There should be a little button or a little, there it is, it's a little
1:15.7	link that says podcast survey. If you go there, click on that, just to answer a few questions
1:22.5	for us, and you might suggest somebody you want me to have on the podcast or a topic you want me to cover,
1:29.3	and we'll take that under consideration. We already just did a podcast earlier, just this past one,
1:35.9	with Bill Federer on the Crusades. Because someone said, hey, I haven't heard much about the Crusades.
1:40.6	Why don't we talk about the Crusades? So we did in the last podcast. So if you want to put your two cents in, go to cross-examine.org. Look on the right side of the home page. About halfway down, you'll see podcast survey. Send us, send us anything that you want us to do on this program and we'll take it under consideration. Okay, this question comes in from a guy that wants
2:01.7	to remain anonymous. And he says this. He says, I've been a Christian for a long time. So this
2:09.6	question is not if Jesus is God. However, I have a question about the resurrection. My question is,
2:14.6	why did he only appear to the disciples and 500 people? I know that he
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