Hosts respond: evidence, free will, and faith in the unseen

• Why doesn't God simply appear to everyone so that belief requires no faith?

The hosts push back: the site's author demands 'evidence without source' and makes himself the center of the universe — if Jesus did not appear to him personally, it could not have happened — while ignoring the four Gospel accounts and the historical evidence for the resurrection. They wrestle with the deeper question (why doesn't Jesus appear to everyone?) and answer that forced belief is not love: God created humans with free will so faith is honest, not coerced. They invoke Thomas in John 20 ('Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed'), the Pharisees demanding signs, and the rich man and Lazarus: people who reject the spoken word would not be convinced by a risen man either. They close the proof with a dare: 'you should examine Jesus' resurrection.'