You have this knack for being verbose, —expressing an idea in too many words which gets you into trouble. It seems the more words you use the less precise you become. For example, your idea can be expressed simply as edited above.
Strawman and projection. Actually it is your take on this that is more ambiguous and less concise than mine. Since it isn't just any kind of “mind” that makes a person conscious of the truth, reality or the “good”, but it is ONLY in and with a 'believing mind' that can do that.
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The idea expressed concisely as edited above. The other words make it ambiguous.
Wrong and another strawman and projection. Yours is more ambiguous and less concise than mine. Actually if reality like consciousness can ONLY be known and experienced in and with the a believing mind, then like conscious reality too can only be known and experienced in the present tense as well.
This goes without saying. Where else would any of us know reality except in a mind? Although, the addition of the qualifier “believing” to “mind” makes your meaning ambiguous.
How can the qualifier “believing” make the word “mind” more ambiguous and less concise than 'believing mind', when “believing” is necessary in order to make the truth and reality known to everyone including you? As if you are not referring to how and why the truth and reality is known to us in this discussion please let me known.
Is a “believing mind” one that believes as you do or is it a mind that can believe something as opposed to someone in a coma with a mind but unable to believe anything? See my point? You use too many words, then you end up stepping on your own feet.
Strawman. I am not referring to “someone in a coma with a mind but unable to believe anything” or a unbeliever, that's why 'believing mind' is less ambiguous and more concise than just “mind”.
Also, it would seem that it isn't just people who self identify as unbelievers that don't know God. But it is also some people who self identify as believers that don't seem to know how and why the truth and reality of God is known to them either.
I think it is a little more difficult than that, but in general, you are correct, God makes himself known to those who are like him, pious people who live virtuous lives. He draws them to himself and discloses Himself to them.
Therefore, someone who does not value virtue will never know God. It cannot be shown to them because their mind is closed off to him.
No it isn't. And what you are suggesting is unbiblical. We don't and can't become “pious people who live virtuous lives” until after salvation and not before. Righteousness comes after we believe and not before, because it is the believing in what His Spirit of truth tells us that makes man 'born from above'.
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:30-31)
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
Here is a link to 286 more verses saying how and why God is known to believers. God commands, recommends and commends belief as the only way and means that God administers His salvation and all of His gifts to believers.