"If there is a God I would never ascribe human characteristics or believe that possible.
And certainly God would not be literally talking to people and MOST of all God would never murder innocent babies and whole populations of a country or kill everybody in the whole world to start his failed experiment again.
I could never carry around what I consider a disrespectful belief about the nature of God".
This will be the most provocative answer of all. I will readily admit upfront that it is purely my own (years ago, acid induced) theory.
It may also be the least coherent as I’ve never before attempted to write any of this and have only ever discussed it in person.
It will hopefully at least be good for a laugh if nothing else.
Everyone who's ever thought I was batshit crazy, will have their suspicions confirmed now.
Imagine God as a scientist with the intelligence 1000 fold that of Einstein.
In this lab He is conducting many experiments simultaneously. This lab is fairly large, holding several tables all of which have independent experiments being conducted.
On one table there is a light source and several vials rotating around this light source.
The vials are placed near or far away from this light source and rotate at varying speeds depending on the needs of the particular experiment being conducted in each vial.
In the vial 3rd nearest to the light source He is creating life forms.
After some indeterminate time has passed,, the life forms have evolved and become very advanced (at least in their own minds).
These creatures have managed to create a way to launch themselves up and out of their test tube.
They are in awe of how vast the room is and can’t begin to imagine just how large it actually is.
They cannot fathom they are merely one experiment in one room of an even more vast building with several rooms on several floors.
This general concept about how small we may be in the entirety of the universe was captured fairly well in the MIB movie where the marble was shown to contain an entire galaxy and the marble was only one in a large bag full of similar marbles.
Now, going more in depth concerning the relationship between the Creator and His creation.
The book of Genesis describes the creation event in great detail.
According to this creation story mankind was created on the 6th day.
I put forth the notion that He is still in the process of “creating man”.
Ever taken a biology class where, as part of the curriculum, you breed some simple life form like fruit flies (what we used in my 9th grade class)?
You start with a few flies and breed them waiting for the mutation of say, red eyes (for example) to appear.
When those flies appear, you then separate them from the rest and begin anew where now all the offspring exhibit red eyes and now you’re looking for another, specific trait to appear. So on and so on.
So, with that in mind, imagine ancient man evolving for however long until the “perfect” physical specimen appears.
We’ll call him Adam and separate him from the rest of the population. With a little DNA manipulation we will give the offspring much greater intelligence and again let nature take it’s course.
After a millennium passes they’ve devolved in many ways and disregard your implicit instructions, with the exception of one man who still exhibits faith and tries to live accordingly.
We’ll call him Noah.
Noah exhibits the physical traits of Adam while also showing a commitment to faith in the Creator’s instructions. At this point we’ll empty the test tube of everything but Noah and his family.
Another millennia passes and again most have devolved except one we’ll call Abraham.
He has not only the physical traits of Adam, and the faith of Noah, but he has a faith unlike anything we’ve seen before.
We’ll test him to see just how strong and committed to his faith he really is.
He’s passed all previous tests, moving away from his family and living among strangers for example, but we’re going to REALLY test him now.
We'll command him to offer, as a sacrifice, his only legitimate son that he's literally waited 100 years to finally get.
Impressively he demonstrates that he not only has great faith, but he is willing to ACT on that faith in a manner never before seen.
We’ll separate him from the others again, and we’ll call him the father of My chosen race of folks called Jews and they will be My people and I will be their Lord. I will bless them in unimaginable ways.
At this point the physical portion of the creation is finished.
Of course over time most stray as usual but we’re now going to inject a form of Ourselves into one of the creatures we’ll call Mary.
The process is what we now call in vitro fertilization, and results in an enhanced creature, part man and part God.
This will begin the next and final stage of the creation, where we’ll focus on the Spiritual side of the creation to compliment their success in the physical aspect.
7/15/2022 1:06 AM (edited)