Originally Posted by nezmot

...according to the bible, God has had very little face-to-face communication with us over the years. He normally sends emissaries in the form of angels, or comes to us in dreams as his chosen media for disseminating his message. One one occasion, he came to us in weak skin and bones form of a man, and we killed him.

And so I got to wondering, why has He gone so far out of his way to try to talk to us, and how come he's never actually made it in person, or rather, without first having to limit himself by taking on a human body (with all the weaknesses and limitations that go along with that).

And I thought that maybe we are to God what the inside of an atom is to us. We know it's there, but we can't investigate it or communicate anything with it directly because we'd catastrophically disrupt whatever might be going on inside. If God tried to come to us directly, he'd destroy the Earth in the process, so he can't - but he still tries, in these different ways to learn about us. Even to go as far as to turn himself into a man and walk among us, perhaps to try and guide us into becoming powerful enough to emerge from our protective shell and become strong enough to talk to Him face to face.

I can't pretend to know the thoughts of God, but it is comforting to think that while he can't visit us directly, we know he's curious enough about us to send his emissaries, but he's also caring enough not to smash us to pieces in order to find out. Let's hope he is a kind and most importantly, patient God.