Please explain the objective evidence to assume that a God of love, joy, peace, patience, forgiveness and mercy is more likely than any other God or gods.
Well I can explain my views, but I hold no intrest in convincing you or anyone that God exist. Its a personal belief of mine, what others believe is up to them. Evidence is for those who are out to prove that such a being as God exist, I hold no intrest in proving that God exist to others, because at its root, its still going to barrell down to belief versus the evidence. One could subjectively offer the evidence, only to have that evidence refuted by others because of lack of belief " In the evidence." However I do believe in answering what questions are asked of me. But mind you, I only answer to explain why I believe, not to persuade that belief to others. I think God is much more able than I to explain himself, when he desires to do as such.
I believe in God because I have examined the " Other possibilitys", and reject those. Such as evolution, or the belief that we evolved from nothing. Evolution is unacceptable to me, I just don't agree with that concept. No, we didnot evolve from some big bang that just exploded out of nowhere, then all this we now see came to be. Perhaps acceptable to others, that does not square with me. Now if there are other theorys concerning how we came to exist, they too are unacceptable to me. But evolution is the only " Other theory" that I view as even worthy to me to have considered. So I accept the possibility of creation from a creator.
Yet that is another subject, or topic. I can go into that topic in detail, and perhaps will, but on another post perhaps, I prefer to stay on topic as much as I can. In this one, I am considering the uselessness of an eternal hell doctrine. I believe that belief in God is given by God, but that God could careless who does not believe in him, because he knows that he is ultimately responsible for their belief, I do not believe he is after free will belief in humans, because he is the author of belief himself. We are not able to believe in God on our own, our ability to believe comes from God, not ourselves. Humans tend to TAKE far too much credit for all things Spiritual.
Evidence then of God, a God who hides himself, is best left to him, not those who believe. I could use much scripture here, but why? Why should I convince anyone of Gods existence, he didnot use others to convince me? Its just been between me and him, and thats how I want it to stay with me. I am beginning to know a little about how God is. Once he has decided to convince, then it no longer matters what others see, or need to see, it only matters how he is dealing with you. God is unique like that, he does what he does, and will eventually do it to everyone. But God himself wants certain amounts of humans to actually disbelieve in him, and thats just the way he has done it. If God, the master potter, molds a peice of clay to not believe in him, there is absolutely nothing another believer in him can do about that. They can talk until they are blue in the face, its just something he will have to do, and he knows how to do it.
I believe it is the destiny of all humanity to come to know God, but only when God decides that. Peace.