A question asked by atheists and naive Christians constantly. If only God would do X, or Y, or Z… then people would believe! I love this idea because it flies in the face of all the evidence since forever. We want to be right and our brains will seek out evidence that makes us right and ignore evidence that doesn’t. This confirmation bias is what lead a pair of pilots on Air Canada Flight 759 to nearly land on a taxiway instead of the adjacent runway. Look it up. There’s video!
The same thing led me to once pour nearly 4 litres of antifreeze into my windshield washer resivour. I could tell something wasn’t right, but I pressed through anyway because surely there is something wrong with the evidence in front of me rather than my previous decision!
When Pharaoh and the Egyptian officers and army realize they have let the Israelites go after plagues of blood, frogs, gnats, flies, animal death, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and human death they think… ‘what a stupid thing we’ve done! We need to go recapture them!’
Seriously. How quickly and easily we forget the consequences of disobedience once those consequences have passed! Despite all that evidence, evidence from which the country of Egypt was still reeling, they decide to go get some MORE consequences. After seeing the pillars of smoke and fire and the parting of the Red Sea, the Egyptians — in spite of the unreasonably large body of evidence — continue to chase after Israel THROUGH THE GAP IN THE SEA WITH WALLS OF WATER ON EITHER SIDE! No amount of evidence would convince this man that the God of Israel was real and that He would ensure His people were released form Egyptian slavery.
The fact is that God has provided a plethora of evidence, we just need to set down our biases and review it honestly.