Matt Fradd

What do you say about the argument of, you know, the non-believer who wants to believe in God, but God, he just can't.

This, I mean, I heard Alex O'Connor talk to Father Gregory Pine about this in a recent back and forth.

There are atheists who claim that they want to believe in God, but they just can't.

And so this is somehow an argument against God's existence, because if God does exist and wants them to be saved, he would need to make his existence plain enough to them to

so that they could go ahead and believe.

The fact that he hasn't done that is an argument from the hiddenness of God, which I think would be like a subset of the problem of evil.

Feel free to state that better than I just did, because I think it's important that we still man the argument.

Hang on.

Okay, let me push back because can't this be the case?

Can't it be true that, say you're God, you want me to believe in you,

then isn't the onus on you to make your existence at least obvious to me?

Maybe I'll reject you.

But if you haven't made it plain to me, I don't even have that choice to begin with.

But God's under no obligation to make his existence apparent to somebody, you're saying.

It is interesting when you look in the book of Exodus and you've got the Red Sea parting and pillars of fire.

And yet people have rejected him.

Yeah.

So here's my challenge to those who are watching right now, who might be skeptics or atheists or just seekers, pray that prayer.

Like right now, pause this video and pray that prayer and tell us that you prayed it in the comment section.

Lord, I believe help my unbelief.