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OneWithDunamis
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OneWithDunamis
Why wouldn't He mislead His beloved creations? When I write a story I don't rub it in the characters faces that I made them.
That's a different situation, as you control everything the characters do... in fact, they don't even exist.
But still. Yes, I would assume you don't rub it in your characters faces. But would you punish them for not believing in you even without any evidence? And with evidence for previously unknown phenomena having a natural explanation, aka not "God did it"? (Assuming the characters exist and have free will)
How different is it, really? If I write "Timmy chooses a Pepsi over a Coke", do I choose it or does Timmy choose that? I say free will is an illusion, and that God made the world for His entertainment. To Him we really are nothing more than just characters in His story.
If you write "Timmy chooses a Pepsi over a Coke", then you form a mental image of someone named Timmy choosing a pepsi. Timmy doesn't actually exist.
Now, if you were writing that down as an observation of an actual person named Timmy, then Timmy is real, but you're not controlling his actions.
Also, even if free will is an illusion, and God controls everything we do, people still feel pain. Why would you punish someone for not believing you exist if you control what they do?
If it's just for fun / the sake of it, then we're not really his "beloved" creations.
That's only from our perspective because we lack the ability to create as God can create. But the relationship is the same. And with that same idea, an author will kill off his characters in his stories, but that doesn't mean he doesn't love his characters. That's something I can relate to, being a writer myself.