Well, what if God doesn't play fair though? What if God created the entire universe in 1952, complete with all those then living - all created in an instant, with full and convincing memories! Complete with those then dead - all the way back to the dinosaurs, created in an instant, sitting in the ground with the exactly accurate carbon-14 decay signature! Complete with the artifacts and remnants of all the histories that never actually happened, but absolutely 100% identical to what they would look like if they had!
It's a monstrous idea, but for an omnipotent being it'd be trivially easy to pull it off. That's the problem with omnipotence - it's not even slightly fair! Such easy and infinite wool, to pull over our poor little finite eyes. For an omnipotent being it would be a SNAP!
All we can see is what we're living in the middle of. You don't have to concede the existence of God, but to argue as if you're entertaining the notion, and then say "God couldn't do this" or "God couldn't do that" - because of the evidence! - that's silly! All of that evidence was manufactured to exact specification. We just need to decide what we want to do about it.
The universe was a fake. A conspiracy of One, engineered by a single yet infinite mastermind! That devious, devious fellow.
It's gone far enough. We have to stop Him.
3 comments:
What a dirty trickster.
You're absolutely right, God is sovreign, and much smarter than we are. "Oh Lord, You deceived me, and I was deceived." I think Jeremiah said that, but my concordance doesn't have it.
Mind you, I don't think He did what you just described (creating the world in 1952, complete with memories), but of course it's impossible to disprove, like many other ridiculous things.
Yeah, I was kidding with that last line. I'm pretty much cool with however God chose to go about it! People who make all definite pronouncements about that stuff, like the specifics matter - they just make themselves look silly.
With help from me sometimes! If I happen by in time.
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