It is human nature to know God as we are created by God and God wrote it in our heart. We seek the truth about who we are and what is our purpose in life.
If one’s mind is blank, then they have not accepted God. By default they have rejected Him.
In Baptism as a child, parents accept God and agree to instruct the child in the faith. As a child attains reason, then they start the process to know and accept God. They can also not start the process to know God and effectively reject God. They can continue to grow or not grow in their faith in God, a lifelong process.
As an adult, one should go through a process to learn about God and then accept God In Baptism. Again it is a life long process to learn about and know God and continue to accept or reject Him.
Some may not have reason to accept God (mental issue) and others may not be exposed to the knowledge about God (a tribe in the outback).
Acceptance or rejection is not just a one time and done, it is a process until we die. Jesus is the Judge and will look into our hearts and see what we have done.
We are all called to spread the Good News about God and salvation, but each person has to accept it by themselves.
I’m thinking more about people who wrestles with some of the specific issues presented here. For example:
1.) You give me this gift of life which I didn’t ask for but then expect me to do this, that and the other thing because of it. And if I don’t I’ll probably go to hell, right God? I mean, I can’t even turn the gift down (suicide) without some horrible consequence.
2.) Well, what does it say about your love if the gift is flawed to begin with by original sin? I had nothing to do with any of that Adam & Eve stuff and now I’m at a considerable disadvantage. How just and loving is that! Maybe you owe me an apology for creating me as a flawed human, God.
3.)You say I’m free. Yes, I’m free to do what I want, but not free from the terrible repercussions that follow if I don’t do what you say. And what I want is to just live my life simply, without this added turmoil of whether I’m going to heaven or going to hell. I mean life is hard enough and I don’t need to complicate it with wondering if I’m bound for eternal damnation because I’m not in some lovey-dove relationship with a God that is pinning for me.
What would you say to the person to convince him that his thinking about God is wrong? You can’t just say, “God Loves You” as if that makes all this go away.