I’m not. I wouldn’t limit it to one person, or one time. I wouldn’t have it written down; better to carve it into something like an obelisk - or dozens of them. I wouldn’t use words, I’d use pictures. I’d also make sure it was available to everyone, not just people who happened to be born in the right culture(s), and was clear enough that it wouldn’t be easily misinterpreted.
Bigotry, incomprehensibility, and fondness for mass slaughter?
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Like I said. The mind won’t investigate what it’s unwilling to allow for.
No, God chose a method of revelation which would cause is to investigate His purposes throughout history on order to understand “Him” in the present, rather than changing the mesaage constantly, because that would only increase the level of controversy and make “Him” chimeric.
God also communicates to and through “His” people through the Holy Spirit, Who leads us to truth.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
What proportion of people alive historically and currently have actually had the means and opportunity to investigate via this supposedly-chosen method of revelation?
Consider yourself being led.
So let’s get this straight: You’re say that if God ensures through his divine and omnipotent will, that everyone who opens his book to read it, will correctly understand it as it is intended to be understood, rather than having them try to make sense of it through translations and long-gone historical contexts, then this would actually for some literally incomprehensible reason have the opposite effect, and increase the level of controversy surrounding His words?
I don’t believe I need to provide a rebuttal to that.
True, but it’s the leading to water-part we are discussing here, not the drinking. Having a correct understanding of God’s intended meaning won’t by itself force anyone to follow it, but it will reduce ambiguity and controversy in what exactly He intends to convey.
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“And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.” - Psalm 9:10 NASB (A psalm of David)
The Guinness Book of World Records estimates that more than 5 billion copies of the Bible have been printed.
Over 100 million Bibles are printed every year.
Readers in the United States will purchase 25% of those newly printed Bibles every year.
In the world today, there are more than 80,000 different versions of the Bible that generate at least 1 sale annually.
Given the central role that even a single copy of a Torah or Bible has always played, even in small early or medieval villages, it’s clear that, proportionally, more people have had access to this book than to ANY other piece of literature in human history.
This long standing emphasis, by the way, is what led to high levels of literacy in cultures with this value, and finally to modern public education.
I think you know that you haven’t actually answered the question.
What proportion of people alive historically and currently have actually had the means and opportunity to investigate via this supposedly-chosen method of revelation?
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I think you know I have answered it sufficiently.
Far more than have had access to a modern scientific education, would be another way to answer.
Do you know of some statistical number to answer this question, which would invalidate the "chosen method?
I find it rather odd that the “alternative method” herein proposed relies on “magic,” by employing means of a forced overruling of any skeptical orientation.
God preserves for us our right to make our own moral choices --including our choice to reject “Him,” while holding us accountable for those choices. He will not circumvent our choices.
Like any truly gracious Person does.
Perhaps what you are truly asking is some version of this question? Fate of the unlearned - Wikipedia