DogmaHunter
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God could certainly make His presence known to the greatest skeptic, but would that help or hurt?
It would help, as it would provide a sufficient and rational basis for accepting this deity is real. As it stands now, the only way to accept such is on an insufficient and irrational basis, known as "faith".
Is God just trying to get you to acknowledge His existence?
Considering that it is criteria number 1 to be "saved" / enter heaven, I'm gonna go ahead and state that apparantly this God considers it rather important that people acknowledge his existance.
Would it be even a greater offence to God for you to know for certain He existed and yet refused His help?
Perhaps. But what of it? As it stands now, not acknowledging his existance is apparantly already enough to be condemned to an eternal infinite punishment. So I don't think it can get much worse then "eternal and infinite".
Man has an earthly objective and acknowledge God's existence is not the objective.
Really?
So, according to your theology, can a non-believer enter heaven?
Take me. I'm an atheist. Suppose I die this instance and christianity is true. Where will I end up, being the atheist that I am?
Faith helps man to fulfill man's objective (it is a humbling activity) while "knowledge" tends to puff up the person (be even more self reliant).
Irrational beliefs are man's objective?
You need to understand the objective since everything is driven by the objective.
All the people that supposedly witnessed Jesus's and other prophet's miracles didn't have to rely on faith. Why should we?
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