If a loving God existed, no honest seeker should ever end up a nonbeliever

Philosopher J. L. Schellenberg argued in 1993 that a perfectly loving God would ensure anyone capable of a relationship with God could believe in one. Since plenty of sincere, reasonable people seek God and still come away unconvinced, Schellenberg treats that 'nonresistant nonbelief' itself as evidence against such a God's existence — turning the usual question of why God allows evil into a parallel question about why God stays hidden.

— J. L. Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason — Cornell University Press, 1993