Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach

[Randy Carson]

I'm not sure how you conclude that I'm a liar from this. I think that if God WERE to go BIG on the revelation thing, it would be coercive in the sense that we really wouldn't have any choice but to go along with the program. For this reason, God has revealed himself in some dramatic ways to some people so that they would know that they WERE dealing with God, but without denying them the right to say no. Most obviously, since He is God, He would be in a position to only approach people that He knew would respond positively. Like Mary, for example. I doubt she was chosen purely at random, do you?

Jonah resisted God at first, but in the end, he accepted God's will. Did God violate Jonah's free will? Or did God simply know that Jonah needed more "nudging"? This is a big subject...one I am not really qualified to dwell on. But it seems to me that God knows whose hearts are ultimately open to Him and whose are permanently hardened by their own decisions and will.

God was "nudging" Jonah in the story? 

The " " marks should have given you some clue that I was using the word for dramatic effect.