(August 28, 2010 at 11:15 pm)AngelThMan Wrote:(August 28, 2010 at 9:09 am)Paul the Human Wrote:It has nothing to do with fear. The point is that God doesn't have anything to prove to a few unbelievers who "tauntingly" call his name. He would only answer those who called on him earnestly.(August 27, 2010 at 11:37 pm)AngelThMan Wrote:(August 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm)padraic Wrote:It's not about "conveniently coinciding." Think about it, if some bullies in your neighborhood tried to get you to come out of your house by tauntingly calling your name, would you come out?Quote:God is not going to answer someone whose purpose is clearly to prove he doesn't exist.Never ceases to amaze me how the thoughts,wishes and will of God conveniently coincide with the those of believers...
So... you're saying that your god is afraid of us bullies? I thought he had, you know... godlike powers. Why is he so afraid to show himself?...
Your view of a god is incoherent. If your god is all loving he will want all HIS creation to freely join him in fellowship. HE has created a situation where it is a reasonable position to have unbelief, and as such if god esxisted he should provide better evidence for his existence. I doubt the creator of the universe has such an uneasy vanity that he couldn't overlook a bit of name calling. So the question remains for an all loving god, who is perfect in every way and wants all of us to join him freely in fellowship, why doesn't he give us an unambiguous indication of his existence. I would argue that is becuase he isn't there - the hiddenness of the divine is a major problem for theism.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.