Aielyn said: 2. Analogy doesn't require every subtle feature to apply, only the general properties. The relevant property, here, is that air is ever-present and yet invisible, and essentially necessary for life. 3. One doesn't necessarily have to identify the presence as "god" in order to be aware of it. It is fallacious to assume that awareness of a relationship means understanding of that relationship. Some could just as easily think that the "presence" is really their own courage, or their conscience, or their inner voice, depending on how that awareness is supposed to manifest itself in those who do believe (not being a believer, myself, I can't really be sure). |
2. No, being all-powerful and loving/wanting a relationship with every human is relevant. They are relevant because there's a contradiction between God's apparent want for a relationship with every human and the fact that every human isn't given a fair and reasonable opportunity to form such a relationship; despite God's power to give them the opportunity. The air analogy doesn't work.
3. If that's the case, everyone does believe in God, no one's an atheist, and no one's going to Hell. Since every healthy person at one point has a conscience or inner voice, which is really the presence of God. The only true atheists would be people who lack the cognitive capacity to develop a conscience due to biological problems. These people will go to Hell since they are inherently incapable of finding God... but I don't think you want to make that argument.