 Even if we accept premises  (4)  and  (5),  we might yet wonder about Schellenberg’s premise  (6),  the claim that God’s openness to a personal relationship with capable nonresistant persons entails that such persons will believe that God exists. Schellenberg argues that a person cannot even “get started” in a personal relationship—specifically, a conscious, reciprocal, positively meaningful relationship with another person—without believing that the other person exists. “After all,” he says, “a personal relationship is a conscious, reciprocal relationship, and a conscious relationship is a relationship one recognizes oneself to be in,” and so “one clearly cannot even get started in a personal relationship without believing that the other party exists” (Schellenberg 2021a, 64). 