I was thinking that clear and unambiguous instructions would be ideal. That way no-one would be in dispute over what his instructions were. God’s existence would be as obvious as the sky being blue or the trees green.
There’s just this one little problem with what you ask here, and that is the fact that it’s already been done and we know the results. There were two people for whom God’s existence was as obvious as the sky being blue or the trees green. God did for those two people exactly what you ask here and gave them a clear and unambiguous instruction:
“You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die.”
And yet, they still chose to disobey and eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Knowledge and experience won’t stop you from doubting God or his instructions. If we decide that we want to do something wrong, then we will do it and damn the consequences. That’s something all of us know, both from the example of others and from our own example.
We see it in every child who is told to not touch a hot pot on the stove because he will burn his hand, touches the hot pot anyway, and burns his hand. We see it in every girl who has been told by her parents to not be promiscuous because she might get pregnant, is promiscuous anyway, and gets pregnant. We see it in every young couple who is told not to shack up, does it anyway, and then has to go through the pain of the eventual separation. We see it in every drug addict or alcoholic who knew that those things were not really an escape from whatever pain they were experiencing, but who turned to them anyway out of fear and desperation and now finds themselves trapped by addiction. We see it in every student who waits until the last minute to do an assignment, in every employee who slacks off at work, in every parent who doesn’t make time for their children, in every child who doesn’t care for and honor their parents, and so on.
All of us are in there somewhere. What we need to deal with all of that isn’t primarily knowledge and a list of instructions, because we’ll just disregard anything we see as an obstacle to exercising our will toward whatever the heck we feel like doing. What we really need are love, forgiveness, and healing, so that we may eventually come to leave our pride behind and enter into the perfect joy that God has prepared for each and every one of us. A joy that we can attain if we will only choose to accept it instead of letting our pride lead us to look elsewhere and settle for something less than perfect, simply because it’s something we personally created for ourselves rather than what someone else (ie, God) created for us.
I pray that you are one day willing to open yourself to Christ, to experience and accept his love, forgiveness, and healing, and through him be led to the joy that God has prepared for you.
I was thinking in terms of an audible voice.