The Scriptures describes this effort in nearly the opposite manner...God decides to whom He will reveal Himself. The rest are crowded out (Rom. 9). Paul notices that the instant response will be, “This is unfair...” But, that is precisely God’s prerogative.
I was going to say that. Thanks for saving me the time.
Obviously, this is not an argument from Scripture. In Scripture, the existence of God is a given and those who deny it are called “fools”.
That is all true, of course.
But before augmenting their natural reason with the power of faith, men need to be told *why* are they fools when they deny God. God’s grace operates even in that painstaking, very human process.
~Theo