Actually, he chose NOT to hear it, didn't he? He chose not to LISTEN... just as YOU chose not to listen.
Adam heard god walking through the garden and had to hide...he heard despite his wishes.
Wrong again. Balaam actually made a different choice... than his donkey. It was when the donkey spoke to him that he DECIDED he had better listen and find out what the heck. Prior to, however, he actually ignored the angel.
Wow, cogntive dissonance has set it. When someone is standing in front of you and talking, you see that person and heard them whether you want to or not. You can choose to ignore them, but you still see and hear them. Same with Moses. You are wrongfully equating agreeing and listening with seeing and hearing.
Ummmm... first, I'm thinking that was Nebuchanezzar's son, Belshazzar, and second, we are talking about hearing... and you don't hear writing. Be that as it may, I would think, given the circumstances surrounding "the writing on the wall"... one would hope to HEAR about something like this (i.e., what it is pronouncing)... than to have to wait and SEE it inscribed in this way. Unfortunately, Belshazzar had made HIS spirit HARD.
You are correct, it was Neb's son. Point is, they had to see the hand on the wall and the words. They could choose to ignore them, but they were phsically manifested before them, just like the bush before Moses and the angel before Balaam. Again, you are equating agreeing with the message with hearing the message. My point is that when god wants to, he can force people to see and hear the message, no tuning required on the part of the listener.
Certainly. But you might want to note that the ONLY ones He MADE listen... were those who WOULDN'T. Those who WANTED to hear... heard... and did so without any problem.
Exactly, he can when he wants to. Why doesn't he do that for everyone?
And, yet, "The Bible" also quotes my Lord as saying:
"My Father has KEPT WORKING until now..."
Which is why I stated that they do not rest "as WE do."
So the Bible contradicts itself and isn't internally consistent. No surprise there. As long as you only pick the parts you like it's easy to like the Bible.