If God exists, and if God is a loving God, wouldn't he be trying to be in a relationship with us 24/7? It's not like he would get tired or lose patience. He's infinite, right?
So if this is the case, than if someone DOESN'T see evidence of that effort, there are only two options:
1) A loving God does not exist, hence the lack of evidence.
2) We are blind to God's efforts, whether by our own will or some other cause.
What do you think? Aren't these the only two options?
Yes, I agree. The atheist finds "no" evidence for a god so his faith is that there is no god. If this condition was true all devout truth seekers would also be atheist. The fact is that the evidence for a God is hidden deep in the mind of atheist and the God seekers equally. The God seeker calls this prior knowledge, knowledge with which a person and all creatures are born. If there is prior knowledge, which may even be called instinctive knowledge, it points to an absolute being which I as a Christian calls God.
I find traces of God everywhere. It has been argued in this forum many times by the atheist that there are no traces of God. In politics the atheist rejects absolute knowledge and rejects self evident truths listed in the Constitution. Self evident ideas come from an Absolute Being; therefore the atheist and Liberal politician rejects the Aristotelean concept that truth does not change in favor of the argument of atheist that there is no Absolute and that what is called truth changes all the time.
Liberal politicians, who are Christians or religious people,are shocked that that they use atheistic logic in their politics, especially when Christians strongly believe they are what and how they think.
The prior knowledge of God or the lack of the knowledge of God, is the most basic premise in all types of systems of logic. The logical person must choose one system or the other. The strength of ones faith is measured by how strongly one follows his most basic premises. Extreme examples of this is the comparison between atheistic Communism and God fearing Americans. Of course not all Communist believe there is no God but are duped into following Communistic logic in politics. They remain a Communist but not a good Communist by Communist standards and in some Communist countries many are punished for being religious.
Liberal and Progressive politicians who push for socialism follow the Communist type of logic, although they also want to be God fearing people also. But, this is my opinion only but I think based on fact, this argument helps explain the conflict in American politics.
The extreme examples are the right wing Republicans (of which I may be one) and the extreme left wing Democrats who want to take their country back. These are two extremes and I don't think either group would like me for saying this. The same comparison can be made in other areas of living such as business, medicine, social clubs, and especially here on this forum.
God bless:angel2: