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If God suddenly appeared and said, "I have returned and I am very displeased!" and then he made all the televangelists and MAGAs burst into flames, I would say, "huh. I guess I was wrong."
I don't need much convincing.
And then you would tell your son, who would tell their son and after around five generations or so God would have to appear and kill a bunch of people once again, because apperently your decendants don't belive in him anymore. If I was a god that would start to annoy me pretty fast.
Well, yeah. Dude vanishes for a thousand years, and I'm supposed to believe the stories of the people who did see his work (people who all died before my most distant tracable ancestor was even born) that were written down by obvious agenda-posters? Seriously?
The quickest way to get more believers is just to show up and do a party trick every once in a while, but for some reason, God hasn't done anything public and indisputable since cameras were invented. Weird for a guy who wants the whole world to worship him. All he'd have to do is just have a booming voice, audible everywhere on the planet, say "By the way, I'm God, I exist, and [insert holy book] is the correct one, so ya'll better get on that." Only the hardcore contrarians would still be non-believers.