by Richlon Merrill

Created on: September 02, 2010

Why do people not believe in God?  Is proof the determining factor?  This question can actually be summed up fairly simply.  The answer to this question may surprise you. 

 But first, a story starring you:

Picture this.  One day you are going about your daily routine when suddenly a massive glowing being standing thousands of feet high, well up into the clouds, appears before you.  Maybe He appears before everyone.  Doesn’t really matter one way or the other; just keep tracking with me here. Anyway, his majesty is so great that it knocks you to your knees. You are blinded by the glorious light. You fear for your life but then he suddenly smiles at you and it’s even kind of reassuring.  You might be thinking to yourself, “Hey, self, could this be God?”  And then he opens his mouth to speak.  His voice is so loud that you have to hold your hands over your ears.  It’s like thunder.  He declares, “I am God!”  By this point you are thinking that maybe he is who he says he is.  But you’re still not totally convinced.  You’re thinking, “He should prove himself by performing a few miracles.”  That might do the trick in convincing you he is God.  So you dream up your best set of miracles (one of which is that he must know what you are thinking and tell you so.)  And sure enough, he knows what you are thinking and performs the miracles you require in order to nail down the coffin in the unbelief department.  He even goes well beyond your expectations.  He creates another moon right in front of you.  Then he explains all of history to you to the extent that you are saying to yourself, “Oh now I get it.  He has explained everything, answered all my hard questions and now I can finally have all the criteria I need to believe in God.”  So you tell him so.  You let him know that he has finally convinced you as to his existence.   You even shout it from the mountain top.  “I BELIEVE IN GOD.”  Hallelujah and all of that jargon.  But then he does something totally unexpected.  He suddenly looks at you sternly and says in his great thunderous voice, “I BANISH YOU TO HELL.”

And so…now you’re in hell. WHAT THE H…

Wow, some loving good God he turned out to be.  But in case you haven’t figured

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