Is God playing some kind of hide and go seek game with man?

When Adam walks into the gardens, is it God that runs and hides behind a bush?

I hear Christian people come to me all the time and they say, hey, my friend, you know, Sally or Bill is not a Christian, but he's seeking, he's searching for God.

On the basis of their experience, they're convinced that this person is seeking for God.

Now their experience tells them that people are seeking for God.

The New Testament tells us he's not seeking for God, that he's running from God. Now which is right? Is God playing some kind of hide and go seek game with man?

Again, is God hiding behind the cloud somewhere and it's left to man to pursue with all of his

might and all of his might and all of his

intellectual genius to try to discover the hidden God.

Is that the picture you get of the nature of God

biblically?

Who's doing the hiding? When Adam walks into the gardens, is it God that runs and hides behind a bush?

Huh?

But why do we make that mistake of saying that people were seeking after God?

Here's where the error comes in.

It's an error in inference. It's a deductive error. We see people all around us searching for peace,

searching for relief from guilt, searching for meaning and purpose to their existence,

seeking for the hope of eternal life, seeking for the power of love and of

righteousness, and of all of these things, which I would call the benefits of God, the things that only

God can provide man.

And we see people all around the seeking for the benefits of God.

And we make the gratuitous assumption that therefore they're seeking for God.

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