The Son of God was born two thousand years ago, at a time when no photo, video cameras or audio recorders existed yet. For people who want visual or audio proofs, His miracles could be just fabricated stories. And they might even consider believers as uneducated, weak or easy to convince, but this is far from truth.
There is a whole spectrum of believers, starting from the weakest to the strongest, from the little brilliant to highly intelligent, from the poorest to the richest ones.
A question arises: “If God wanted more believers, why did He send his Son so long ago, instead of our times? The visual and audio technology would have provided more convincing proofs of his works.”
One of the reasons could be, the fakeness of our times has reached such high levels that many people have little trust in what they see and hear.
Social media is invaded with fake videos and fake claims, news media presents biased content, get-rich-quick schemes are everywhere, state propaganda flourishes.
Say, Jesus was born about 30 years ago, and today He is teaching and making miracles. Followers regularly record videos with Him and capture many of His miracles like multiplication of five bread loaves and two fish, healing of blind, resurrection of dead. The clips are quickly posted on social media, but the majority of users consider them as fake videos intended to influence the public.
Of course, this is a normal reaction, given that today is very easy to modify videos and add or remove details. An untrained person might see the modified versions as originals.
Add to these a conspiracy theory and you have a recipe that can sabotage a good mission.
Compare it with two thousand years ago, when people had strong faith in divine and the stories were carefully preserved when passed to others.
No recorded video or audio was necessary to believe a certain thing happened or was spoken.
Our times bring a lot of technological improvement and better life, but a lot of spiritual strength is lost because of widespread distrust. Probably, that’s why He said that because of lawlessness “the love of many will grow cold“. And He wondered whether there would still be faith on earth upon His return.
We need to understand that even if people are the most intelligent beings on Earth and we achieved unimaginable levels of development, it does not mean we know better than God when things must happen. There are many reasons why Jesus Christ was born long ago and one of them could be the decay of human trust and faith.
Although we do not have videos and audios of historic Jesus Christ, we can still have faith and be rewarded just like He mentioned: “Blessed are those who did not see, and yet believed”.
Be strong, have faith, and do work that earns Heaven.