You pretend that untold billions who have sought God earnestly with their whole hearts for millennia were wasting their time because God hid the way to salvation in code and only revealed it to you. You maintain this despite the very clear way to salvation as outlined in Scripture.
Not exactly. Although it has been revealed to me by
my God. The proof is in the pudding and as everyone knows,
IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PUDDING!
I will tell you something. Try to hear.
The secrets to the kingdom of heaven were kept hidden, SECRET, even from the Jewish laity by the Essenes among others, religious elites who sought easy lives off the suffering of their own people. And it seemed more ridiculous when Jesus said God revealed to him wisdom
HIDDEN in the Law, *
the wall of the Temple, unheard of for 1000 years since Moses died.
* thats me speaking in code to the elect.
On the appointment of presbyters.
When these men have undergone, with blamelessness of conduct, a two year preparation in the fundamentals of the community, they shall be segregated as especially sacred among the formal members of the community.
Any knowledge which the expositor of the Law may posses but which may have to
remain arcane to the ordinary layman, HE SHALL NOT KEEP HIDDEN FROM THEM; for in their case there need be no fear that it might induce apostasy.
On religious discussion.
No one is to engage in discussion or disputation with men of ill repute;
and in the company of froward men everyone is to abstain from talk about (KEEP HIDDEN) the meaning of the Law. (Dead Sea Scrolls, Manual of Discipline)
This is why Jesus said, "
No one lights a candle and then hides it under a bushel, no, they put it on the lamp-stand to everyone in the room can see.", and why some exclaimed, "Where did he get this teaching!" Not because it was unknown, never heard before, but because it was supposed to be kept secret HIDDEN
especially from froward men like Jesus.