Misconceptions of Christian theology

[jstrodel]

In line with my actual point, my laptop has stacks and stacks of books on it, without affecting its physical dimensions at all. Given that this is the case, god could have made his book just as long as he needed to.

Well, God withdrew his hand from blessing the human race when it left the garden, whether you take this literally or not, there was a point in human history in which humanity became separate from God. So, it is true that God could have built a semiconductor plant in the ancient world and created all the requisite technology necessary to care for the laptops that would be assembled, but that would substantially change the ancient world, and it would be harder to transmit. It also goes against the less supernatural age that happens after people leave the garden. What about countries that could not import laptops?

If God changes too many things, then the balance of free choices versus determined choices changes. God wants to allow different parts of different nations to be connected causally to him through sowing and reaping. He does not want to upset the causal balance too much, otherwise it will be like the end of the world. It is true that God could dramatically change the course of history, but the more things that God changes the more that people don't have free will. If God needs to build a semiconductor plant and a laptop assembly plant in every nation that can hear the Gospel as well as all of the roads and equipment and electrical equipment necessary, that is really going to change history a lot.

God works inside of history. He doesn't do things that are logically contradictory. God is the God of history.