The folly of childishly challenging God

Many Jewish people revere God and have a meaningful relationship with him.

An all-powerful being deserves reverence.

Alas, there are people that childishly challenge God by taunting the Creator to show off his power – I’m sure you’ve crossed paths with one or two such ”smart Alecs.”  These people say things like, ”If God really exists and is all-powerful, why does he not strike me down with a lightning bolt for my insolence when I deny his existence?” Challenging the Creator so childishly is missing the point entirely. God isn’t a genie or a magician to show off his tricks when called. Why would an infinite intellect play such asinine mind games?

Why would God, an all-powerful being, appear to some random guy who has challenged him? Clearly, the guy’s hubris is of monumental proportions. People who say, ”I’ve challenged God, he hasn’t responded, so there’s no God, haha” often want to appear smart and rebellious, but they are just walking and talking cliches who assume that a person of faith hasn’t gone through the evolution of belief and needs to be ”enlightened” or ”educated.” Just because someone believes in God doesn’t mean he or she hasn’t considered a plethora of other beliefs prior to professing their faith in God.

If the Creator wants to bless you or curse you, even entire nations, he is going to engineer events flawlessly to make the blessing or the curse happen when he wants it to happen.

Challenging an all-powerful being to the battle of wits so God can prove he’s real is an asinine idea. Luckily, in most cases, God doesn’t seem to notice all these challenges aimed at him. There’s probably way too much on God’s plate to care about some so-called smartarse challenging him. God would need to only respond to childish challenges to prove he’s real if he took them all seriously coming at him from across the multiverse.

And it stands to reason the Creator of the universe, possibly the infinite multiverse, has much more rewarding things to do than proving his existence to some guy down at the bar. But, on occasion, if someone really gets on God’s nerves, the Creator might make an exception and show just what the cosmic chess grandmaster can do.

God has a sardonic sense of humor, and might tell the cursed one to, for example, take up cha-cha dancing and start learning Hebrew as it’s going to come in handy in the next life.

Conversing, doubting and praying to God is encouraged. Challenging God by telling the Creator of the universe to smite us to prove he’s real is childish and pointless. And if we keep taunting God, he might say enough is enough and engineer events in our life that will shock us and show us who’s in charge.