(June 23, 2015 at 9:16 pm)professor Wrote: I want to answer the OP's question.
That question, and the one that logically follows it, "Where will I be in 100 years?""
began my journey for truth.
We are here to choose God.
You ask why didn't God just say, abracadabra? rather than the painful route we see.
Because after all is said and done, there will be no voice of questioning the justice of the Creator.
Everyone will stand on the result of their own choices.
If I understand what you are saying, your second to last sentence means that god is evil, but because he is all powerful, he can fuck with people all he wants. Is that what you mean?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.