[kosta50]

Are you saying that you wonder why He didn’t show Himself to the opposition?

Yes. Why not convince them and preach the Gospel to them too if he expects you to do so?

[Quix]

Why not convince them and preach the Gospel to them too if he expects you to do so?

Noah, how long can you tread water?

Kosta can have his reasons

yet

ALMIGHTY GOD, by Kosta's daffynitions,

canNOT!

Great 'scientific' consistency, there.

Haven't you been overseas . . . even in the Orient?

How long would a protester have lived in the court of Gengis Khan insisting that Gengis Khan HAD to take a particular attitude, stance, policy?

OBVIOUSLY God has found it HIS WISDOM AND PERFECTION to do it differently. . . . to avoid bothering about kowtowing to pharisees and their sensibilities and !!!!DEMANDS!!!!!

I realize that pseudo-super-rationalists routinely construe themselves as well ABOVE ALMIGHTY GOD'S paygrade in judging such things . . . however, I still don't recommend it.

[blue-duncan]

“Yes. Why not convince them and preach the Gospel to them too if he expects you to do so?”

Jesus answered that question in his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) vs. 30-31, “And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”

You ask good questions but the problem in answering is as someone has pointed out faith answers do not lend themselves to philosophic certitude. Mathematical proofs come close but even they, depending on the discipline, are taken on “faith”.

You are right in a sense that the bible does “beg the question” of who God is. Since it presumes to be God's word, it obviously must also presume that what it contains in it and what it says about God and His creation is true.

Also, since, as John stated, John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” God has preserved his word for us since it is the gospel.

But again, although the accuracy of the bible has been authenticated by archeologists and the preserved works of the early church fathers, it being the word of God is still a matter of faith; faith based on the evidences and the Holy Spirit.

[Godzilla]

Yes. Why not convince them and preach the Gospel to them too if he expects you to do so?

He spent 3 years trying to convince them, they made their choice.