1. Why aren't amputees healed? Does god have something against them?
Any supernatural act of god is not to amuse us, but are specific to His purposes on the earth. If an amputee, cancer patient, etc. is healed it has a specific part in fulfilling His plans here on the earth. The Christian scriptures are consistent throughout in verifying this claim.
2. Why doesn't god stick his head out from wherever he is and say "hey, I'm real," and why does he require that you believe in a being for which there is no proof to get into heaven?
This is a loaded question. First it is bogged down with your presuppositions about God. That being that his head is stuck somewhere.
2nd, you say he requires you to believe in a being for which there is no proof. There is ample evidence for God. The sense in which you are using, "proof" is arbitrary. In other words, you are saying, that whatever you subjectively consider 'proof.' The fact that you can attempt to use logic and reason to ask such a question, is evidence that He exist. There is absolutely no basis for logic or reason apart from the Christian God. None. And yet, here you are using it, and apart from there being a god, you can give no reason WHY logic or reason exists. Even though you can not see logic or touch it. It is abstract, yet you inherently know that it is, and that it works.
3. Why should I choose to believe in a god that essentially says "I'm not telling you if I'm real or not, but if you don't believe in me, you are condemned for all eternity"? Isn't that a little cruel? Isn't god supposed to be loving and caring? If I was god, I think I'd show people that I exist every once in a while.
Thanks.
That is also a loaded question. You are asking us to defend a statement that we don't agree with. We believe there is evidence to know God exists. By what standard are you determining that God is cruel? Why do you assume that god is not loving or caring? Are you holding God to some objective standard of loving or caring? How did you arrive at that standard, and why is it adequate to judge a being you don't believe in? Isn't that kind of setting the deck?
Could it be that God is totally just in judging people for rejecting His provision of salvation?
You see your questions are somewhat self-defeating. You claim that you don't have enough evidence for God, but then comment on the fact that you are aware of who He is, the fact that he judges, and that there is a standard He judges by. How can you claim that there is no evidence of God, if you are in fact asking about Him?
The Christian scriptures tell us that God has provided evidence that he is real. The fact that you are asking questions about Him implicates that you do in fact have knowledge of Him. Only that you don't like what you know.
-If you were God? Well let's see if you qualify. All you need to do is make a single cell. And you get to start with nothing. If you can do that, then perhaps you are worthy to judge Him. You claim that God is unfair if He rejects you for failing to comply to His standard. Yet, your whole case is that you reject god for not complying to your standard. Hypocritical? Perhaps you should consider the validity of your position.