Ok I admit it

[Clueless Morgan]

I don't get it. I use many arguments that seemed so profound when my parents used them on me. What am I doing wrong?

You're blindly accepting what an authority is telling you without doing your own research and you're trying to make the same appeal to authority with people who have done the research and don't accept your authority (your father/parents).

A metaphor my father likes to use:
God's grace and forgiveness are like if someone told you they had a new car in the driveway for you. If you just say you don't believe it's there and disregard it, it's your fault for not accepting the gift and trusting it's there, not the givers fault. It's the same with God. He gives the gift, but the person has to accept it and go see it for himself. I might have not said that perfectly, but my father often uses this one while he's preaching.

Only a fool would accept the gift of a car without first checking to see if the car exists just as only a fool would accept a gift from a god before the gift, and the god, were demonstrated to exist.

For example, you receive a phone call from an accountant telling you that a long lost relative whom you've never met, nor heard of, but who happened to be rich, has gifted you their entire fortune (let's say it's multiple tens of millions of dollars) upon their death - and they just died. It's an amazing gift to receive, one that you're eager to get your hands on because you just declared bankruptcy. Should you or should you not accept this gift simply on the say so of the accountant? If you do no investigation of the accountant, the story, or the long lost relative how do you know you're not being conned?

Let's say the accountant is not some random person calling from out of the blue, but your accountant whom you've known for years and who helped you through the bankruptcy you just went through. It's a person you trust. This accountant tells you that this long lost relative has personally called him with the news of your impending financial windfall, that this relative of yours is on her deathbed and has, in fact, died since the accountant talked to her, and that she has personally chosen you as her sole inheritor. Would you really not look into this claim? Would you not be at least a little suspicious? Would you not go do any research to see if you really are related to this rich, dead relative just to make sure you're not being scammed?

That's the difference between you and the people in this forum, and that's why you're not persuading anyone.

You aren't doing the research. They are.

You aren't testing the credibility of the claim. They are.

You're only hearing the ca-ching of the dollar amount. They're hearing the subtle toll of the con artist.