The issue here is WHY is one exploring? Does one not believe there is a Creator-God?
Does one suppose God doesn't care about man and did not give us His Word about salvation and hope? Does one think he/she is wiser and more capable than God and can tell Him what is best? Is one too proud to humble self and receive God's love-gift of a Savior in His beloved Son?
Is one reading the Word of Truth as God declares? Is one incapable of understanding the simple message God has Given mankind in His Word?
These things are all elementary, and many souls believe less sources in the world about many things ---why not believe and trust God-the Father who has declared His love and care for us, IF we will receive Him?
A couple of things.
This place is for seekers to ask hard questions they wrestle with, and an opportunity for Christians to provides answers in the hope that what the seeker finds here will be the key that leads them to God and Jesus. It is not, as far as I understand it, a place for a Christian to make a declarative statement to the effect that they are baffled why seekers cannot see what the posting Christian thinks is obvious.
This place is for non-Christians/Seekers to post questions, with only Christians providing their perspective. You, a Christian, have posted first, and now it's a dubious prospect for any non-Christian or Seeker to post in reply to your declaratives of what you think are obvious (some Christians are willing to recognize that some things are not obvious), in accordance with the rules of this section of the forums. So, this post puts non-Christians and Seekers on the defensive, and leaves them facing the prospect of having to put a toe over the line, rules-wise, to defend themselves. This could easily be
interpreted as an insult, to place non-Christian and Seekers in this position. Wouldn't it be better to come across as humble and accommodating in a place where Christians are in the majority, so as to make non-Christian and Seekers feel welcome and comfortable in this place and situation...? It's not very sporting, otherwise, is it?
Finally, the statements you are asserting function as an insinuation of non-Christians and Seekers ability to recognize the obvious, when both Christians and non-Christians can easily tell you that after spending time circling around a finely-tuned point of apologetics, at the end of the day their comes a point where the reason and rational behind apologetics so often still seems to give way to the need to go beyond to a leap of faith. And a leap of faith means to go beyond what is obvious. So your statements about what are obvious are, I'm afraid, not obvious.
Your insinuation that your assertions are obvious can also be in danger of being interpreted as insulting.
And for all the reasons I've discussed above, your post does not help the cause of Christianity. In point of fact, as another poster has more eloquently and concisely stated, you may well cause harm to the Christian mission to effectively spread the message. That's the bottom line, isn't it?
This section of the forums, Exploring Christianity...[Inigo Montoya]I don't think it means what you think it means[/Inigo Montoya]. 'Just saying.
