
Surely God knows everything. That's what omniscience means. We also know that everyone's psychology is unspeakably complex. Who knows what lurks beneath our own conscious lives, let alone everyone who has ever lived. For me, it seems entirely possible that for some people, people with a certain kind of psychology, a direct and obvious relevation from God would be met by revulsion, fear, rationalization, or perhaps even indifference, or even puzzlement. But then perhaps an omnipotent God can remedy this. But I don't see how He can do this without direct manipulation of thier psychological constitution, which would tamper with their free will, which is linked up with their psychology. It is intuitive to me that we have to perserve freedom.
So, it is possible that a direct revelation yeilds less saved than an indirect one. And it doesn't seem like we can overturn this possibility from the standpoint of our finite perspectives. I mean, what reason could we possibly appeal to so as to prove that God ought to have made Himself more obvious, or Christian Truth more obvious? It seems we extrapolate from our own expectations or our own idiosyncratic predicament to foist that upon everyone else. But there doesn't seem to be a good reason to engage in such an extrapolation. It doesn't even see

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