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Originally Posted by weateallthepies
This just moves us into the cherry picker's favourite line that it's "just a metaphor" whilst on the other hand asking us to accept other passages as fact.
How do you know which is which?
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I'm just speculating on how I think it may work. Obviously the game God plays is not a game, but as science shows there are rules that he apparently decides to operate within. But thats a good thing. In order for Choice, which is the key aspect of our existence, to have its meaning its very important that there be effects to causes in the universe. Otherwise there could be no real example of people who chose morality as a way of life. Get it people, Gods plan is something about getting us to choose to be moral. And the universe is set up, it seems, to facilitate that choice. God only has use for those folks. The rest burn in hell. I don't know maybe as a designer God is trying to constantly improve his designs, and incorporating choice into the equation is the important improvement.
If you were trying to design an intelligent computer, machines that regularly lied and acted on evil whims would be fairly useless to us. If the computer was intelligent it would have to be able to choose actions and weigh out consequences. And the only point in having that machine would be to have ones which chose for the Good.