Why God does not intervene in history
Because He is already there! He doesn't NEED to intervene. To ask the question, "Does God intervene in history?" presupposes that God is a distant God who may occasionally consider intervening during some rare moments. But that is not the God of Christian Scripture and tradition. So, there can be no good answer to the question, "Does God intervene in history?" because the question is so badly framed. It's sort of like asking Barack Obama, "why don't you wear an American flag lapel pin?"
It strikes me that there were several occasions in which Jesus did not answer the question put to him, at least using the terms provided by the questioner. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? Whose wife will she be in the resurrection? Should we worship on this mountain or in Jerusalem? Is this the time when you will restore the kingdom of Israel? Can we sit at your left and your right when you come in glory?
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A powerful but easily-forgotten truth. Amen!
It strikes me also that we're so often wrong-footed in seeking God's hand in this world because He appears in the 'wrong' way, the 'wrong' place.
Thus Rabbi Hugo Gryn's answer to the cry "Where was God in Auschwitz?" - there, violated and blasphemed.
Thus also the angels' ironic and eirenic remark to the women at the tomb: "Why do you seek the living among the dead?"
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