(August 7, 2013 at 9:41 pm)BettyG Wrote: I think God doesn't give us so much evidence that we would be forced to believe in Him. I think He wants that to be a free will choice based on trust and humility. There is enough evidence to believe if we choose to accept it.
The Bible chronicles many occasions when god made his existence plain to people, and those people did not consider it sufficient to accept him as their sovereign. The Bible tells us that angels in heaven --beings that we would think had the ultimate experience of knowing god directly and seeing him exercise his great power and his perfect qualities-- gave up their position in heaven because they were smitten with Earth women.
God, even when he is present, does not make a compelling case for serving him according to his own book. Why would anyone worry that if he made himself known today we would be robbed of our free will and forced to make a specific choice?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
