On God's Existence (2)

The Bible never "proves" God's existence. It just states God's existence. All the arguments for God's existence strictly speaking are not based on the Bible, though some of them use some ideas from the Bible. Why? I guess it might mean that God does not want to give people evidences of His existence that will satisfy everyone. Why?

Well, there are two kinds of objects of knowledge: things and people. People may learn about things, study them, measure them, make experiments with them, and so on. The knowledge about things can be objective. However, it is not so with people. People may hide their thoughts, feelings, and intentions from one another. They may pretend to be who they are not. They may deceive one another. They decide what to tell others about themselves and what to tell to whom. So, knowledge of a person depends on his or her openness to others. It is different from knowledge of a thing.

Using terminology of Martin Buber, these two kinds of knowledge are described as "I-it" and "I-thou."

I understand that some people believe in impersonal god. An impersonal god might be described as "it." But personal God is not "it." He is "Thou." What a human being may know about God is only what God wants to reveal about Himself. It is one thing to learn about God, and it is another thing to learn God Himself. I do not know how many people would like other people, for example, their friends, to know about them, but never to know them.

When people are studying something, they are in a higher position than the objects of the study. However, when friends are learning about one another, they are in more or less equal position. If people were able just to study God and everything about God as an inanimate object, would not they think that they are higher than God? Would God want to take position lower than a human being who studies Him?

Just as a human being may not be willing to share about himself or herself with enemies, in the same way God may not be willing to reveal Himself and give "sufficient" evidences of His existence to people who already set their mind to disbelieving in Him and denying His existence. I think it is quite logical.