Why Doesn't God Make It Obvious?

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Sponsor: https://fishersnetwork.com Support the channel by visiting https://brianholdsworth.ca A common refrain you will hear against belief in God’s existence, according to Christianity, goes something like this: If my salvation depends on belief or faith in God, and is therefore extremely important to him, he would obviously want me to believe in him. And the thing is, he could make himself easily known to me. He could simply appear, speak to me, or perform some other kind of definitive sign to let me know that he at least exists. If he’s all powerful, such a performance would be effortless for him. But he doesn’t do that. So he either can’t, is indifferent towards my belief, or he’s not there. None of those conclusions is compatible with the Christian notion of God. You’ll often hear atheists recite an argument like this, known as the argument from divine hiddenness. Although, I have heard some atheistic standard bearers, like Richard Dawkins, Peter Boggohsian, and Peter Atkins admit that there is no evidence that could possibly convince them that God exists - even if God wrote a message to them in the stars, they would have to conclude that they had gone insane. In other words, their problem isn’t that there is no evidence, their problem is that they won’t admit any possible evidence that God doesn’t exist – for them this is about a devotion to a system of faith in certain enlightenment era presuppositions, not evidence. #divinehiddenness #atheismvstheism #theismdebate Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: http://pauljernberg.com Podcast Version: https://brianholdsworth.libsyn.com/