(April 14, 2013 at 10:37 pm)Tex Wrote:FallentoReason Wrote:There's a subtlety that you're not picking up on. If God is 'omniscious' (has the 3 omnis as attributes) then he is capable of making us know beyond doubt that the Bible is true. What we do about this knowledge is a whole different story, as you rightly pointed out how the Bible says demons know God exists but they still rebel.
God could give us total knowledge that the bible is true, and obviously he is not. My first guess would be because the bible isn't necessary for belief. Even if Moses wrote the Pentateuch (earliest), that was around 1400 BC. People before him believed and non-Jews believed. The necessary knowledge for salvation is written in the bible, but what is written is also evident outside of the bible.
It is not evident in everyday life that a Jewish apocalyptic preacher died a most inhumane death, and that I should believe such an atrocity was done for me, that I should believe this so that I might have a chance at a concept of eternal bliss which also is not evident in every day life. It is not evident that burning bushes talk, that YHWH's booming voice is heard every now and again, that water can be split with a staff, that demons cause sicknesses and that life on earth is capable of surviving an entire 24 hours without the earth's rotation.
I would suggest God do a little more than what he has, because the necessary knowledge for salvation sounds closer to science fiction than the everyday experiences we have with reality. Such an incompetent attempt at ensuring humanity knows the Absolute Truths of the Cosmos has lead to billions upon billions of souls roasting in eternal damnation simply because some of them never had the opportunity to know that the dubious events of 2000 years ago in a Jewish community were the reflection of absolute truths about reality and beyond, thus never giving them the chance at eternal bliss.
The non-belief of today is a problem to the concept of a just and loving god.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle