CTD writes:
You're not interested in truth.
That's disingenuous...
CTD writes:
The Bible doesn't say God is going to just up & "make some believe" He or His salvation aren't real.
Sure does...
Romans 9:21 writes:
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
You then further twist....
ctd writes:
You maintain that He should practice psychological manipulation to such an extent that He gets a positive result in every single case. There's no free will in that. It's just an inefficient method of manufacturing zombies.
Disingenuous again. That is not what LinearAg said. He said
la writes:
1. How is convincing someone of the value in serving God considered twisting their arm or making them robots?
2. What aspect of God providing strong unambiguous evidence of His reality to the world negates our free will?
Providing strong unambiguous evidence is not "psychological manipulation".
The whole free-will argument for the justification of hell etc is rubbish. That is, the argument that God had to give us free-will so that our love genuine. One can still have free-will and still be designed to have a strong propensity to obey and understand God. My dog is genetically wired to obey his master and to be a loyal companion. Does that fact somehow negate or minimize the value of his love and loyalty? No.
LinearAG writes:
First, you have not shown that I have turned away from the love of truth. Interestingly, many seekers of truth don't come to the same conclusion about God that you do, despite their sincerity in the quest. I am one of those.
CTD writes:
Talk is cheap. You need to start behaving like a sincere seeker of truth.
You replies are cheap and arrogant.