(July 11, 2013 at 2:12 am)Godschild Wrote: God will not violate the free will He's given us, your problem is you believe god gave free will in the whole of our lives, this is no scriptural. God gave us free will to chose Him or to reject Him, outside of that the amount of free will God allows you to have depends on His will.
Omniscience and free will are incompatible.
What choice did I get? Your god created me with a mind that is incapable of believing claims unless I am provided with demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument and valid logic to support them. That's the way my mind has always worked from the time I was a kid. The existence of your god does not live up to the criteria that I require for belief.
I could no more believe in the existence of your god than you could believe in the existence of invisible unicorns.
So, as far as I can see, your god created me, knowing ahead of time that I would not believe he exists, and be destined to hell. And to make it worse, he knows exactly what it would it would take in order for me to believe, yet he fails to provide me with it.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
