every person. Quite the opposite: in the words of the late Francis Schaeffer, "He is there and He is not silent." He has made himself known, sometimes quite spectacularly. But simply because He has not made Himself known spectacularly to every single person does not mean that there is insufficient evidence to show that He is God to each and every person. The difference is between informing and overpowering. God has made Himself known in such a way that every person knows (but for their denial) that God is real. He has simply chosen (as the result of a value choice He has made) to not overpower people and force them to a belief in Him. In the book The Case for Faith , J.P. Moreland gives an example of the difference. Suppose that you have a young son who does something wrong. If you tell him to apologize or you will spank him, you would expect that he would apologize. Why? Because he fears punishment. The apology would be disingenuous and a mere attempt to avoid punishment. Likewise, if God made Himself too obvious such that a person could not choose to disbelieve, then that person would not necessarily be lovingly coming to God. Rather, that person would choose to follow God because he would have no choice to do otherwise. That is overpowering the will which is what God apparently does not want to do. 5. The Stretch "Finally, the claim that God has non-interference with human free