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What constitutes 'loud and clear'? Genuine question.
I have a budding(but never actually written up) ten thousand word effort post on miraculous evidence for the truths of Christianity. Unfortunately, I would be unable to handle the blasphemies surely uttered against it, probably I would get an AAQC and a permaban in the same thread. This is why I avoid faith topics/proofs in general(my dm's are open to inquirers, sure). But this stuff... exists, even if I'm not the person to make the argument. What constitutes sufficient evidence?
My problem is something similar to the problem of evil, but it's not evil that's the issue, but unclear communications.
If God is all-powerful and all-benevolent and our cognizance of God matters, then why isn't he just talking to each and every one of us directly in clear, impossible-to-ignore language that we dumb people actually understand?
Instead it's all symbols and vague feelings and reports from questionable sources, all of which make it seem like divinity is a barely-coherent concept kept alive by wishful thinking.
I can kind-of square that circle through either:
None of which seem particularly satisfying, but "God dropped us off with a confusing book and some maybe-miracles a few thousand years ago and now we just need to take it on faith, even though he could of course have angels turmpeting right in front of us and informing us of divinity in plain English on a daily basis, but chooses not to, because [apologetics]." doesn't really it do it for me either. Sorry for that. Much like @KingOfTheBailey, He wired me up wrong.
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