A Self-Concealing God - part 3

(continued from part 2......)

Ok, this is my point, the primordial spark has to bootstrap itself, quantum-observationally(?), into potentiality and actuality, and you and I are part of that bootstrap. Wonderful.

So, why isn't God more chummy with us? Aren't we all on the same team? Imagine how much blood has been spilt, in the course of 'working out' the answer to this question.

Ever hear of Deus Absconditus? Hey, that's our Gal!

But, you see, I'm an apologist, so what's our excuse?

Ok, so God is like Tom Sawyer, but more so. Tom Sawyer stuck around while the fence was being painted, presumably. God has played peek-a-boo, while we slave away on the fence. Well, there is a rumor that there was an ~8hr peekaboo, which event is still causing a ruckus. And there seem to have been other such events, each with its obligatory ruckus. Maybe she decided that it wasn't worth the trouble.

Or, maybe, there is another way to look at this problem. I'm thinking tough-love. Perhaps, in order to maximise our human potential, she had to minimize hers wrt us. IOW, if she hadn't cut the umbilical/apron-strings, where would we be today?

That was the original sin. That was the Fall. Felix Culpa, as they say.

But, see, the atheists have managed to convince themselves that God would never be able to hide herself as thoroughly as this one has, apparently. I mean, really, how could anyone fool the best and the brightest for, what, four centuries? And, of course, the evangelicals can't understand why everyone doesn't just read the bible like they do. Anyone who doesn't go half-way to meet God must be inherenly evil, so to heck with them.

And, besides, isn't just plain silly to suppose that God would go around planting all those fossils, but not lift a finger to assassinate Hitler, for instance. That is just insane!

Am I suggesting that it was the paleontologists who planted the fossils? What, like Piltdown man? Not quite. I'm suggesting that Creation was mostly retroactive. Yes, I am a teleologist, and we've barely scratched the teleological surface of the world, so blinded are we by the light of our very narrow brilliance, idiot savants that we are.

A Self-Concealing God - part 4

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