Not at all, because a person can think and act logically while not presenting a 'formal' logical argument in an effort to prove something.
Yes I have, many, many times.
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No, you have never given me
a logical reason why the message should be easy to find. In fact, you have not given me a
reason at all, and as such that is just a personal opinion with no reasoning behind it.
There is no reason to think that the message should be easy to find and I have explained why it is not easy more than once.
But let's look at the reasons you gave me that you thought were logical reasons.
You said:
As for why it should be easy to see the message from god, it's the same reason that it shouldn't be difficult for people to find out that there is a treatment for some nasty illness or a vaccine. Your god (according to your description) is doing the equivalent of somebody who developed the only COVID vaccine, not announcing it to the world but setting everybody puzzles that they have to solve and not telling them what they'd get if they solved them. It's comically absurd. If you happen to like rummaging around in old superstitions in case there might be some truth there, then you might find your god's message, but if you just make a rational judgement that there is no obvious message, then you won't.
There is no logical reason why the message from God should be as easy to find as a vaccine and to compare it to a vaccine is the fallacy of false equivalence because medicine is not equivalent to a message from God. There are reasons why a vaccine needs to be easy for everyone to fid but there are no reasons why a message from a Messenger should be easy to find. The main reason is because God does not want to make it easy and since God is the sender of the message God makes that judgment call, humans do not make it. It is highly illogical for any human to think they can dictate how an omnipotent/omniscient God ‘should’ deliver His message.
You said:
Logically, an omniscient, omnipotent, just and fair creator god, who has an important message for its creation, would make that message clear to everybody and not allow it to be confused with superstition, corrupted or misinterpreted. It would not play games of hide-and-seek and expect people to go looking. That is not the world we live in, therefore I conclude that there is no such god.
There is no logical reason an why omniscient, omnipotent, just and fair creator god, who has an important message for its creation would make that message clear to everybody and not allow it to be confused with superstition, corrupted or misinterpreted. The logical reason why such a God
would not do that is because that God gave man a rational mind and free will to choose. As such man is fully responsible for what happened to the messages from God that were delivered.
There is no hide-and-seek since the message for this age is available for all to read in the Baha’i Reference Library online, but God is not going to hand carry that message to everyone in the world and make sure they understand it and believe it as that is patently absurd.
You said:
It's not my personal opinion, it's blindingly obvious. If god has a message that it is important for humans to recognise, then handing it out to human 'messengers', letting it get corrupted by people, so many people didn't have access to it, no matter how much they may have wanted it, letting people kill each other over different versions, and providing no objective evidence that there is any message at all to look for, hence excluding anybody rational, is obviously unjust.
It is your personal opinion and that is ALL it is. God had a message that it is important for humans to recognize and God handed it out to Messengers who were not only human, they were also divine. God allowed the messages to get corrupted by man because God allows free will. There is no logical reason why God should be responsible for anything man did after the message was delivered since God gave man a rational mind and free will. The way God delivers His messages is totally just because God ensured that the Messenger completed His mission, including writing scriptures , and God created man with the
capacity to recognize the truth in those scriptures.
“He hath endowed every soul with the capacity to recognize the signs of God. How could He, otherwise, have fulfilled His testimony unto men, if ye be of them that ponder His Cause in their hearts. He will never deal unjustly with any one, neither will He task a soul beyond its power. He, verily, is the Compassionate, the All-Merciful.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 105-106
“.... I have perfected in every one of you My creation, so that the excellence of My handiwork may be fully revealed unto men. It follows, therefore, that every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God, the Glorified. Had he not been endowed with such a capacity, how could he be called to account for his failure?”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 143
Man has always had access to messages from God brought by the Messengers since messages have been brought to every nation.
The Three Kinds of Prophets
If man rejects the message that is on them, not on God, because man has a free will. God’s job is done as soon as He sends the Messenger and the Messenger’s job is done as soon as He completes His mission on earth. After that, the ball is completely in the human court.
I didn't say that. It's not about not making choices, it's about the reasons behind the choices we make.
Fair enough, of course there are reasons for the choices we make but since about 90% of our thinking is subconscious I don't think we can always know those reasons although sometimes we might know.
We have free will
for all practical purposes (
compatibilism) but that wouldn't work if there is an omniscient, omnipotent creator.
Why wouldn't it work, if the omniscient, omnipotent creator wanted us to have free will and use it?