You assume he's infallible as a dogma of your faith. I don't. You have yet to demonstrate he is, so once again I wait.
No, it is not from dogma, it is from scriptures. Dogma is man-made, scriptures are Divine-made. That cannot be demonstrated (proven) since scriptures cannot be proven to be from God.
No. Wrong. Yet again. I dont define it. Perfect communication is an objective standard that can be measured. It has nothing to do with what I want.
Oh, and how would it be measured, by how many people believe in God? Sorry, but you have no proof that if God communicated directly to everyone, everyone would believe in God, since it never happened, so you are up a creek without a paddle, unable to measure it. In other words it is just a personal opinion, a bald assertion, that if God communicated directly to everyone, everyone would believe in God.
And human nature was chosen by God. So he chose to create us in a way that is incompatible with direct communication with him.
You got that right, because God does not WANT humans communicating directly with Him. That is what YOU want, not what God wants. God is omnipotent so guess who gets what he wants?
Free will is a misnomer, as I've already addressed. Direct communication from God wouldn't impact our ability to make decisions based on that communication any more than direct communication from anyone else. Even the Bible confirms this.
You are right about free will, so just as I said above, not everyone would necessarily believe in God if God communicated directly to everyone.
No. Wrong. Again. It isn't crappy "to me," it is crappy objectively by the numbers.
What numbers, the small numbers of atheists?
According to sociologists Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera's review of numerous global studies on atheism, there are 450 to 500 million positive atheists and agnostics worldwide (7% of the world's population), with China having the most atheists in the world (200 million convinced atheists).
Demographics of atheism - Wikipedia
Yes, A faith. Not the same faith, in fact, mostly contradictory faiths. Meaning the vast majority of humanity has gotten the wrong message. This conclusion is unavoidable, no matter how you rationalize it.
The fact that there are many different faiths is just a red herring. Of course there are many different faiths, because they were revealed in different ages by different Messengers of God. But that is not a valid argument against Messengers of God as a method. If God spoke to everyone directly there would be 7.44 billion different “faiths.”
Moreover, in the future, there will be only one faith, the Faith of God. God is patient so He can wait.
God has it covered because he sent an “all-powerful and inspired Physician” Baha'u'llah. It might not look like it now, but the future will be a lot different. God has ordained that there will be one common faith for all people, so we know it has to happen. Given my age, I won’t see it in my lifetime, but you might see a big change during your lifetime.
“That which the Lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith. This can in no wise be achieved except through the power of a skilled, an all-powerful and inspired Physician. This, verily, is the truth, and all else naught but error. Each time that Most Mighty Instrument hath come, and that Light shone forth from the Ancient Dayspring, He was withheld by ignorant physicians who, even as clouds, interposed themselves between Him and the world. It failed, therefore, to recover, and its sickness hath persisted until this day. They indeed were powerless to protect it, or to effect a cure, whilst He Who hath been the Manifestation of Power amongst men was withheld from achieving His purpose, by reason of what the hands of the ignorant physicians have wrought.”
The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, pp. 91-92
No. Wrong. Again. Very obviously not.
I'm not going to respond to you anymore on this thread. We don't seem to be getting anywhere. Rather than rehashing the same stuff over and over, let's focus on your evidence for Bahaullah being a manifestation of God.
You are wrong in saying that Messengers of God have not been successful. The fact that most people believe in God (all but 7% of the world population) and that most of these people (84%) have a religion demonstrates Messengers were successful. Moreover, there is no way you can know that direct communication to everyone would be any more successful, since it never happened, so it is just a personal opinion.
You do not have to respond to this post unless you see something I said that is NEW you want to respond to.
I will try to get to that thread. As luck would have it, my incoming posts are slowing down and my other life situations are on hold for the time being because I cannot deal with any more stress for at least a week..
I will tell you a little secret now. On some other forums that are part of a group, I discussed “God directly communicating to everyone” with one atheist poster for about four years, so if you think we have been discussing this a long time, think again.
Finally, it came to an end, but during the process I learned all the rebuttals to his arguments, and I have them memorized. I even have most of them saved in Word documents. We have finally moved onto new frontiers; now he is talking about other things he thinks the omnipotent god would/should do if god exists.
I tried to invite this poster over to RF but he won’t come. I told him how many atheists there are here and some would agree with him, but he STILL would not come.
I once told him I spend more time with him that I spend with my husband so why don’t we get married? Of course I was joking but he took me seriously.
Since I came to RF, I have posted several threads as a result of something he and I were discussing, and I even have one on direct communication to everyone I posted about a year ago:
Do you think that God should communicate directly to everyone in the world?
