Just like how some Christians criticize Atheists for not believing in God, they do the same to us. I am Catholic myself, but I think it's God's choice on to choose a person's religion. Some Atheists just don't believe in religion, but don't criticize others for believing, but then get tired of the believers who try to change them so much. I've seen that happen to a friend of mine multiple times.
Why did God create contradicting religions (5000+ and counting)?
Why did God create Atheists?
He created these religions, by listening to people's inner thoughts, and then giving them the religion that would help them turn to Him for salvation the most. That's why people choose and have various religions. It's what they need to find the true religion that provides salvation from death into eternal life.
That makes little to no sense badecker but nice try. A god would know exactly what would convince everyone and yet not everyone is convinced, he either failed or he doesn't exist.
That's what I said. He knows exactly what is the best religion to convince every person. You simply are forgetting the part about convincing, and are looking at forcing instead. God doesn't want forced robots in the people he created. He made a bunch of those forced robots in the plants and animals. He wants beings that have some free will. Yet He isn't going to give His glory to anyone else. You keep on ignoring the way it works. You will ultimately lose eternal life in glory if you don't change.
If he appears to me, he is not ''forcing'' me to believe in him, that doesn't take away my free will at all mate. He could easily just show himself to everyone and we would still have free will.
You are exceptionally blessed. Not only has God "appeared" to you, but He has allowed me to explain His appearance to you:
1. The machine nature of the universe - machines have makers;
2. Cause and effect + entropy + complexity;
3. The fact that you are able to set yourself up as god by making all kinds of claims that you know you don't have any validation for.
As Robert Heinlein wrote in
Stranger in a Strange Land, "Thou art god." But God is also Himself, stating to us in the Bible through Jesus, "You are gods to whom the word of God comes."
If you won't accept the blessing of God's appearance to you after all the explanation I have given, your destruction will be far worse than someone else who hasn't had the explanation, and won't accept.
