(April 27, 2014 at 4:47 pm)Stephanie Wrote:(April 27, 2014 at 4:42 pm)Beccs Wrote: All your deity needs to do is make an appearance and/or provide testable evidence of its existence. According to the OT people could barely leave their houses without god appearing to them, sending angels or providing signs.
Yet now, as our knowledge advances, it refuses to do such things.
The people he appeared to were already faithful. He will not appear to a non-believer because they first have to allow him into their heart. If he just appeared to everyone people would choose to accept him out of fear, not love. He leaves the choice to you without intervention.
And there's a demonstartion of your ignorance of atheists.
Many WERE faithful believers. Many, I would also suggest, were far more devout than you.
So we come into a vicious circle: All-knowing god creates people it knows it will send to hell, many of whom believe in it. Deity refuses to provide the evidence of its existence, even when asked by those faithful. Faithful give up belief in deity. Deity sends them to hell.
Again, why is this deity worthy of worship.
And don't play the "They weren't real Christians" card. Because that's just ignorant.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"