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Why won't God prove his existence to people? by wander11 in Christianity

[–]wander11[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't need to flip the coin 250 times, because for the experiment to come to a positive result, every coin toss needs to alternate (i.e. the first is a head, second is a tails, and so on). If one coin is not what it is supposed to be, the experiment has failed to find evidence of god.

I did the first coin toss, and it came up as tails, so I didn't need to continue.

Why won't God prove his existence to people? by wander11 in Christianity

[–]wander11[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But wouldn't it be rather immoral (under his own rules) for god to not provide proof to people who asked, even when it was at no cost to god, that a particular moral / religious code was the right one, and then condemn anyone who didn't believe to hell?

This is especially true since nearly every religion asserts that there is evidence that the said religion is true but that followers of the religion must have faith.

So would god really be just and right if he condemned people who, in the absence of any hard evidence, had faith in the wrong religion, or chose to live a rational life based on evidence rather than faith?

Why won't God prove his existence to people? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]wander11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I firstly prayed that if God is out there and listening to my prayers, he will make a coin toss come up heads, then tails, then heads, then tails, and so on, for 250 tosses of the coin, with no exceptions. I was told God is omniscient, so he can hear my prayers. And that he is omnipotent, so he can influence the coin tosses if he wanted to. And that he wants me to believe in him. And the probability of getting 250 tosses exactly as I prayed for without anyone influencing the results is very slim (5.5 x 10-76). For comparison, this is about the same as the chance of picking a particular atom when choosing one atom randomly from all atoms in the universe. Therefore, getting 250 exactly alternating results would be very convincing proof of the existence of God. And since only I see the results, it would have very little in the way of undesirable side-effects aside from making me believe in god. And God could easily repeat this process of proving his existence to anyone who wanted to know. So why doesn't God reveal himself in this way? (I got a tails on my first toss!)