Sorry it wound up a bit lengthy but I wanted to paint more than a snapshot of the two sides to which you allude.
So, I have a question in regards to the "devil", and "god".
I would first like to question one thing.
Why has the (if devil) shown so many presences of himself in the world, ......
This is a good place to start. There are two places. There is the world, and there is the kingdom of God/Jesus Christ.
John 18:36 Jesus answered,
My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Only those that have been born again can see the kingdom of God.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
As grandpa pointed out from Romans, God made Himself manifest in such things as the miracle of creation, and appears to ever more so as we continue to learn about DNA and such.
However the
kingdoms of
this world have been Satan's legal possession ever since Adam's fall. He even offered them to Jesus, if He would bow down to him, but Jesus didn't take the bait.
..... whilst the same hasn't been done by god?
However the observation that inspired your question may depend somewhat on where you live. Many parts of the would have been almost entirely consumed by Satan's spirit of antichrist. For example:
AP - December 06, 2006 MOGADISHU, Somalia - "Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days."
Yet at the same time millions of Muslims in Africa are coming to Christ, and over 40% of them through dreams, visions, or being spoken to directly by Jesus Christ. I'm talking about things as specific as being told to show up in an appointed place and to wait, when later on they are greeted by the person that Jesus sent them to. This is from a great book I recently finished titled "Miraculous Movements" from which I pulled that. However you can find lots of youtubes as well.
Since the "church" is dead in so much of the west, and particularly in Europe, I shudder to think that it could be because God sent strong delusion that they should believe a lie, because they had no love of truth.
Falling Away or Apostasy
1.5 billion people in the world today - that's 1/4 of mankind - believe that to confess that Jesus is the Son of God, or even
to pray in Jesus name, would constitute the most egregious and only unforgivable sin. A sin worse than, for example, child rape or cold blooded mass murder.
UNFORGIVABLE SIN OF SHIRK
Yet in the New Testament we read: 1Jo 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
That same 1.5 billion people are
commanded to conquer all kingdoms, and subjugate all people, to
DISbelieving the crucifixion of Christ,
DENYING the Son of God, and
REJECTING His shed blood as articles of their faith in the false prophet Muhammad alone.
Surah 9.29
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth,
(even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. 30 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the
Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say.
Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!
Bukhari, V1 B2 #24 Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said: "
I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle....."
JIHAD
That's why Muhammad's
true followers are out to kill or subjugate all non-Muslims -
because they are commanded to. The the only "radicals" are those that preposterously claim it is a religion of peace, which is directly opposed to its 1400 year history.
Sura 19:88 They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].
As if that weren't enough, Muhammad proclaimed the exact opposite of the whole subject of the Gospel:
Surah 4:157 That
they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";-
but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-
As you can see, Islam is to Christianity, as the negative is to a photograph, yet godless folks must have to convince themselves that this is just some sort of a crazy coincidence. With 1/3 of mankind proclaiming a belief in the God of the bible, and 1/4 of mankind proclaiming the opposite of the way the God of the Bible revealed Himself. Just as the false prophet was the exact opposite of the sinless Messiah Jesus Christ.
Bukhari B77 #600 Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: That while he was sitting with the Prophet a man from the Ansar came and said, "O Allah's Apostle!
We get slave girls from the war captives and we love property; what do you think about coitus interruptus?" Allah's Apostle said, "Do you do that? It is better for you not to do it, for there is no soul which Allah has ordained to come into existence but will be created."
Seems Muhammad's followers at least either having the shred of decency to not want to burden their captives with unwanted children as a result of rape, or perhaps were just more concerned about whether their prices reduced when sold into slavery. Thus no surprise:
"Eyewitness accounts detailing the militia attacks are horrifying. "They killed my 3-year-old son right in front of my eyes," one father from West Darfur said. Since last fall,
women have reported more than 500 rapes. Three women said five militiamen beat and raped them last August. The women said, "
After they abused us, they told us that now we would have Arab babies. And, if they would find any [more] women, they would rape them again to change the color of their children.""
If you're going to reach into the "good" isn't seen by everyone argument, well in my eyes that doesn't even stand as a conclusive answer to my question. I'm just trying to get more knowledge on what Christians answer to this question is.
1Cr 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
Yet: Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
