(June 23, 2021 at 3:25 pm)Drich Wrote: if life was indeed a form of SIM theory like were are all just apart of a holodeck/matrix recreation of reality (A brain in a vat being fed electrical inputs to make it think it is part of a broader world, or a body tied into a matrix of sorts, or simple AI's who have to die in this world to wake up in reality.. (which is kinda what the bible describes creation is/God to be)
If this is the case then what does it matter if our avatars exposed to in game suffering? ever play a video game? ever trivially kill a sprite/guy just to see what would happen? meaning if we are plugged into the matrix or if we are brains in vats or more biblically correct spiritual beings coexisting in a physical body what does it matter if the avatar is exposed to the dangers of the game so long as the gamer/spirit can not be hurt?
why would God devote a huge amount of energy preserving and protecting what amounts to a digital form designed to live but a few brief moments and then die?
God is concerned about the long Game the Spiritual being (the player in the real world/not mario on the screen) and it's place in the rest of eternity/real world not this sim. meaning if it means mario has to die by having the power turned off early or the game level become so increasing difficult, that the gamer gives up on the game/sim so that in real life he gets up and goes outside to play.. then it is not good that mario (in game had a hard/difficult life?)
So why should god care about, what you as a sim cares about, to the degree you care about it, if his goal is to get you take your turn to play the game and then move on to the rest of your life???
when in a few moments you will wake up from this simulation and nothing that mattered to you in the sim will matter in the real/heaven world.
You are suggesting that God doesn't care one bit about people or their problems -- the Earth is just a place He plants souls in the hope that they ripen and can be harvested for eternity.
This "life doesn't matter, only heaven matters" idea is one I vehemently disagree with. I am actually angry about it. It can justify any and all evil, and robs life of its beauty.