Just a thought. If I was god, and I was in communication with the puny beings I had created, given free will, threatened with eternal damnation but then said they had a chance at salvation as long as they lick my metaphorical boots with regular prayers and so on, which I think is a perfectly reasonable request, even supreme beings need a bit of ego massage - and as long as they accepted my word, as dictated to my chosen prophet, *then* I would have shown my all-merciful nature by flicking ahead a few thousand years and seeing a series of future predestined events (because free will only gets you so far, after all), and I would then have dictated a series of prophecies that I would state in the language of the future, explaining to my chosen ones how to write it all down. And then I would have checked back regularly throughout future history that no one had inadvertantly made any mistakes in transcription, like saying stuff about "virgins" when I'd quite clearly stated "woman of high birth" or camels and needles when I originally said rope, and so on. And if any such changes crept in, well a quick cut and paste would put it right, on the books and my minion's memories. So there would be no excuse for disbelief when I'd predicted thousands of years in advance that human beings would one day fly, walk on the Moon, split the atom and so on. Hell (as it were), just to show my divine beneficence, I might even throw in the real TOE somewhere in the Book of Revelations. (Or whatever the equivalent is in the Torah or Quran or I Ching or Norse Eddas or whatever.)
But I guess that would take all the fun out of condemning people to eternal hellfire because they didn't believe stuff written in obscure, cryptic language 3000 years previously. Aaaaanyway, as Brent was saying, quoting someone, we have no way of knowing whether we have got the good or evil god on this particular kalpa. But I can make a pretty shrewd guess. (Hahahahahaaha! Oops sorry ignore the laughter it just slipped out...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
