He'll present enough evidence to convince you - but won't prevent you suppressing that evidence. In a general sense, suppressing evidence is something we do in order to remain unconvinced of something.
That's my point. He DOESN'T give enough evidence to convince me. An old book, written 2000 years ago for mostly illiterate nomads and shepherds isn't convincing to me. There are many books written for many religions that claim many of the same things as the Bible. I treat each of them the same, because there is just as much evidence for all of them.
In fact, all the evidence I see seems to point the other way. The geologic column, physics, biology, genetics, cosmology, and chemistry. Even psychology and medicine. If God is presenting us with evidence, it seems to me that he's presenting us with far more evidence of his non-existence than of his existence. That would mean God, who gave me the mind and logical/observational capacity I have, is deliberately placing convincing evidence in front of me that contradicts his existence.
Our past, present and future are all now to God. We're the time-bound ones and talk in time-bound langauge decribing time-bound concepts. He's not time bound. Mixing up the units of time and eternity you get sentences like this.
God knows now whether you will be convinced in your future because he is there, at your future, with you, now.
Again, he's seeing exactly how convinced I will be by his book. He knows "now" if that is evidence that would convince someone with the mental make-up I have. He knows it won't, and yet he does nothing to try and convince me. He's throwing in the towel and saying, "That book wasn't enough, I'm not willing to do any more than that, so I guess he's just screwed."
But pressure builds up and Gods hope and plan is that the pressure of suppressed truth buried PLUS the accumulated shame and guilt resuling from actions following that suppression - will erupt in a massive explosion which results in our very being dying. Not our physical bodies necessarily - just our being.
The funny thing is, it's the "saved" people who seem to feel this shame. I don't subscribe to an outdated and illogical moral theory. Many of the things in the Bible do agree with my morality, and those things I follow. I don't lie, or steal, or cheat. I treat people as I would want to be treated myself. I think I'm a good person, and feel absolutely no shame for my character. I don't think I'm a loathsome piece of shit that can't make any good choices without relying on an invisibly Daddy figure to tell me right from wrong. I feel bad that you consider yourself to be so horrible that you need to be saved from yourself.
Skepticism? Skepticism is like murder and stealing and queue-skipping, all mere lackeys of Pride. All sin serves pride ultimately. Take a look at your own sin and you'll see that that's the god being served.
Skepticism is what allows us to see through bullshitters and people who would do the things we both believe are immoral. The liars, the cheaters and the stealers. If I weren't skeptical, I'd be taken in by all the con-men in the world, unable to make decisions in my own best interest. Skepticism is healthy and necessary. You, yourself, have a lot of healthy skepticism. You're skeptical of the Greek and Roman myths. You're skeptical of that 3 am infomercial trying to sell you a knife that can cut through your sneakers.
A man can fool himself into thinking he's okay with his fine house, his beautiful wife and kids, the car, the job, the etc. And he can fool other people that he's a decent, upstanding citizen. Gods job is to use a mans sin to convince a man that there really is something rotten and sick inside him. At the core.
Again, I feel sorry that you see yourself in such a bad light.
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