(August 25, 2012 at 8:55 am)Tempus Wrote:(August 25, 2012 at 12:12 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: I am by nature a very skeptical person, and I can't help but apply my skepticism to your decision here.
I'm a very sceptical person and I can't help but be sceptical about your scepticism. It would seem to be a very inept god who couldn't adequately reveal themselves without ambiguity. You can say this is human error or misinterpretation, but this raises the question of why this god sends people messages in formats it knows perfectly well they can't (or won't) receive, decipher or interpret correctly.
I never said God reveals Himself ambiguously. You do have a point about the messages he sends that people wont receive. Perhaps in such a case the sensical thing to do would not be to send any messages about His existence to a person who he knows will not receive them anyway. And given that the goal of God according to Christianity is a holy life and the knowledge of God, (rather than having people simply believe he exists) perhaps it doesn't make sense to reveal himself to people who he knows wouldn't worship Him even if he did. (as I have heard some atheists say)
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
