Is God's existence objectively verifiable?

[Torillian]

Dulfite said:

Torillian said:

Dulfite said:

As for your last point, it's a heart thing. God desires people to come to HIM and to receive HIS blessing of salvation, but people refuse and reject HIM time and time again. And people, all of us, are deserving of the punishments of eternal separation from God (we kill each other, lie to each other, commit all kinds of sexual immorality, and the list goes on). But God, being merciful, offered THE way out of that in Jesus Christ. Blaming God for people going to hell when he has freely offered the way out of it is like blaming a firefighter on a lader extending his hand to someone in a burning building and that person rejecting the hand, it just doesn't make sense. 

God makes the rules and then decides what's required for him to "forgive us" our transgressions.  

In your analogy that would be like if the Firefighter lit the person's house on fire, and then when reaching out his hand said that you'll have to love him in order for him to save you.  

 

No, because mankind was not originally in sin when God create us. We put ourselves into sin and therefore the burning house. It's not like we, as a species, were created in the burning house.

God made the rule that he can't abide sin.  He's all powerful, why does he have requirements to his forgiveness?  He decided that everyone who doesn't love him goes to hell.  He absolutely lit the house on fire.