If God cannot do something as mundane as overcome impediements (to your mind) like the philosophy called Empiricism then he's certainly not capable of creating the men who dreamt it up.
Yet He has failed to do just that despite my fervent requests for Him to do so. This leaves 2 possibilities in my opinion.
1. He is not the one who created men, therefore he is not God. 2. He doesn't really want me to follow him.
Either case results in me not following the Christian version of a Supreme Being.
Coercion you were free to escape from is no coercion at all.
I am free to escape from Hell without accepting Jesus as my savior? I don't understand.
From my reading of the Bible and talking to different preachers, the only way to escape Hell is to accept Jesus.
It's Jesus or "burn baby burn".
Maybe you are speaking of being free to believe or not. How does that keep me from Hell?
If God is real and He is the God you believe in, then my belief seems irrelevant except that it will still land me in Hell. The difference is that I don't believe the choice is real and you do. Therefore, your belief in that God puts you in the position of being coerced into accepting the Savior in order to obtain forgiveness. God refuses to forgive, a thing He could easily do, unless you accept His Son. For believers, it's Jesus or Hell. Serve me or die. How is this not coercion? How is this honorable?
Those were my relevant finds. It'll be interesting to see what LindaLou turns up.
Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth
"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm
"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson
