Why would one's prayers be denied after a lifetime of asking for truth? Personally, I did get the answer. If you become interested, here’s a book about that topic: The Bible accounts for the preconditions of intelligibility. Therefore, when someone tries to argue against the Bible, they have to use biblical presuppositions such as morality, laws of logic, law of noncontradiction, and so forth, in an attempt to argue against the Bible. The Bible accounts for these transcendent concepts. The same applies to morality and laws of physics. Consider the universality of the laws of logic: if someone were to try to argue against the existence of laws of logic, they would have to use logic to argue against logic…it’s self-refuting. Yet, in a random, materialistic universe, why can’t 2+2=5? How does a materialistic universe, without an all-powerful, transcendent Creator, account for the law of noncontradiction? The law of noncontradiction transcends the chemical reactions in our brain, and is not limited to any culture or geographic location…it is absolutely universal. For example, 2+2 should always equal 4, rather than 2+2 equaling 5. Since God upholds all things by his power (Hebrews 1:3), the universe should never contradict itself. The consistent Christian agrees with the law of noncontradiction, because the God of the Bible cannot deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13), and it is impossible for God to lie (Hebrews 6:18).
Here’s the main point that I want to address: you imply that contradiction is a bad thing, and I agree with you on that. First, I don’t agree with the claim that the Bible has contradictions all claimed contradictions are easily debunked, and there are several solid sources of research on that topic, such as this one.
Speaking of transcendence, the last sentence of your comment brings up an important topic. One reason I see the unquestionable and undeniable existence of God is because He supernaturally changed me over 8 years ago, and now I know Him transcendently.
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