the hiddenness and silence of God is causing me doubts.

Is there any advice or help you can offer such as that God is silent now

because revelation has been completed with the New Testament? Thanks.

So Mike, the hiddenness of God is one of the, it's simultaneously a philosophical argument against

God's existence or at least against God's love. And on the other hand, it is also a very

emotionally heavy and influential argument. Often, the more philosophical arguments aren't

emotionally very impactful, I think. A lot of times, you know, like I look at, say, the,

the column causing a lot of glory. I mean, I go, wow, that's a really good argument for God's

existence, but I don't know how much it strikes people's emotions. I look at the moral argument

and I go, ah, that one hits people's emotions and it's intellectually strong as well. So that's

interesting. This kind of hits both. And the hiddenness argument goes something like this. And I'm just

going to, I mean, something like this. I don't have a syllogism before me to present to you,

but it goes something like this. Hey, um, if God really loves people and he wants them to know him

and he wants them to follow him, then he would make efforts to reveal himself to those people,

right? So if you had a sincere non-believer, a sincere non-believer who was sincerely looking

and searching for God, but not finding God, that would perhaps prove that God doesn't really love

them and want them saved. Because look, they're sincere and they're trying, but they're not finding.

So there must be some fault in God because their motives, intentions, and methods are right.

This is the divine hiddenness thing, God's, so God's hiding from this person, this hypothetical

person. There's a few ways to poke holes in this argument, okay, logically speaking, I think.

One is to challenge how much sincerity is really going on in this person.

That while they believe they're sincere, I'm not saying they're knowingly being deceitful about

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