Oh, so you're going to childishly pretend as if you know better about what it takes for me to believe in something than I do.
Do you think you know more than God about what is necessary to believe in God? You cannot know more than God unless you are more than omnipotent, which is logically impossible.
I do not decide what it takes to believe in God. Logically speaking, God created humans so God the one who knows what humans are capable of and what they need. If humans are not
capable of believing in God and need something other than what God provides as evidence, then God cannot hold them accountable for believing in Him.
“.... 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
Just because some people do not believe based upon the evidence that is provided by God does not mean they are
incapable of believing.
Let me give it a try: You don't REALLY believe in God, you just THINK that you do. My yes, what a WINNING debate strategy THIS is.
I not only believe in God, I know God exists. How I know is beyond your comprehension.
And let's be honest about your 93% believe in god nonsense. The reality is that maybe 30% of the population calls themselves Christian and they consider all of the Hindus, the Muslims,the Sikhs, and every OTHER religious followers to be DELUDING themselves into believing in a god or gods that don't actually exist.And of course the Hindus,Muslims, etc all think that the other,Christians included, are the ones who are deluding themselves. Heck, even among CHRISTIANS there are plenty of Catholics who think all of the Baptists, Methodist, etc are all DELUDING themselves into following the WRONG path.
That is a red herring. It does not
matter which religion they are or what they think of other religious people; if they are not an atheist they believe in God.
According to sociologists ArielaKeysar 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
That means that 93% of the world population believes in God.
All this tells me is that human beings are generally gullible and VERY good at deluding themselves.
All this tells me is that it is just obvious to most people that God exists, even with no verifiable evidence.
Why is it a bad thing to no longer have to choose? What is the benefit is being forced to choose whether or not you believe in god? In fact, doesn't god forcing us to CHOOSE if we believe just open the door for people to believe in MULTIPLE gods or a god that wants them to fly airplanes into buildings filled with people?
That is just how God wants it. God does not want the belief of people who do not
freely choose to believe in Him. God wants them to be willing to do the work and determine for themselves if He exists. In that way they demonstrate their desire to believe in God. That process continues after one is a believer. One’s faith is constantly tested.
Think of it like a final examination at the end of a college quarter. One has to be tested in order to prove they are worthy of getting the college degree. They do not get it if they do not do the work and pass the courses necessary to obtain the degree. Why should belief in God be any different?
Can you provide an example of anything else in life that it is best to CHOOSE if you believe than to have verifiable evidence that it exists? You have verifiable evidence that the sun exists. Would it somehow be better if you had to CHOOSE to believe that the sun exists? And why exactly would the sun WANT us to have to CHOOSE to believe in it?
It is necessary to choose to believe in many things when we cannot obtain verifiable evidence.
Most things we choose to do in life have outcomes that are unknown, thus there is no verifiable evidence that that they will turn out as we hope they will turn out. We
believe they will turn out as we hope but we cannot verify (prove) that until after the fact.
For example, when one decides they want children, there is no verifiable evidence that one will have a healthy baby. A couple believes they will have a healthy baby but it does not always work out that way.
If I decide to drive a car I believe that I will not have an accident but there is no verifiable evidence of that.
I ride a bicycle to work every day 12 miles each way in heavy traffic. I believe I will not get hit by a car but there is no verifiable evidence of that.
I had no verifiable evidence that I would be successful and get all the college degrees I got but I chose to believe that I would. Had I not chose to believe that, I would not have spent over 15 years going to college. Had I not taken the chance I would not have gotten those degrees and all the jobs I have gotten to earn a living.
I had a tenant who owed me more than ten thousand dollars in back rent and most people said I should have evicted him and cut my losses. However, I chose to believe that he would eventually pay that rent, and then a few months ago he sent me five thousand dollars. Since then he has been keeping up on the monthly rent and he has promised to pay the remainder of the rent he owes. Had I not chosen to believe him, without verifiable evidence, I would have been out ten thousand dollars. I had some evidence that he would eventually pay me, and that evidence was my past dealings with him and that he had never lied to me, so I believed in him because of his deeds and his character. For the same reason I believe Baha’u’llah is telling the truth, that He was a Messenger of God.
