Cichawoda-
God does not “disappear” because of your non-belief. He is only not a part of the reality you wish to acknowledge. You do realize there is “reality” beyond what your five senses can dictate to you, right? Are these “realities” any less true because of your belief or non-belief?
Actually, your “acknowledging” or accepting a “reality” has VERY LITTLE if anything to do with wether that “thing” exists, except in your own mind.
The bigger question becomes: “What is TRUE?”..or more precisely TRUTH…or even MORE precisely..
THE TRUTH???
I can’t answer that suffiently for YOU, because that is THE CHOICE that we are all given as breathing, living, thinking entities.
I believe God gives us ways, be they signs, wonders, circumstances, creation, and yes, even the Bible and the Holy Spirit (I can see you rolling your eyes!) to point us to himself…and we can continually and deliberately dismiss and ignore those signs…until we no longer even notice them. And then…it is usually (not always though) too late! We are SO FAR down that road we wouldn’t even recognize God if he came up behind us and tapped us on the shoulder!
As for your Oak, Thunder, or Fairy gods, mankind has used an infinite number of substitutes, idols, religions and superstitions to explain the “unknowable” (… gee even scientific theories for that matter!) and you can say, “to each his own”, or it’s all “in the eye of the beholder”, but NOT EVERYTHING can be TRUTH, and yet…NOT EVERYTHING can NOT be Truth! (Oh sure, everything can have a GRAIN of truth…but is it THE TRUTH? Because only THE TRUTH will not have a grain of NOT being True!)
It is some kind of quandery we are in, eh?
WHERE or WHERE do you go? What can you do to REALLY seperate the LIES from what is, in effect…DESTINY???
You can, like most people do, ignore the whole arguement and just live your “real life” (whatever that really IS) or say, I already KNOW THE TRUTH and NOBODY or NUTHIN’ can change my mind because well, I just KNOW IT, and frankly, I’d rather be GOD of my own life than have any other god! At least you know YOU are TRUE…right?..or do you???
“There is a way WHICH SEEMS right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12
As for your “oak, thunder, or fairies”
