The Bible is full of ambiguities and metaphors and is open to...

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    The Bible is full of ambiguities and metaphors and is open to interpretation, and perhaps that's by design. If it was simple and straightforward, and there was indisputable evidence of God's existence and that we were created by him, we'd be like pet animals, nothing more.

    I'm reminded of that "psychic" crocodile Speckles who supposedly predicted the outcome of the recent Fed. election. He was presented with posters of the two contenders at Crocodylus Park in Darwin, which were attached to presumably equally attractive meaty treats. Speckles had the "free will" to choose and he ultimately selected Albanese. Perhaps we're a bit like that.

    The Earth is our Crocodylus Park and humanity is Speckles, and we're tasked with choosing between attractive options perhaps to ultimately decide the ruler of the Motherverse.

    Why were Satan and his followers cast down to Earth to torment us rather than simply being put on a planetary object and flicked out of our universe, perhaps into another universe, or on a trajectory into the depths of infinite space?

    Why did God allow Satan to torment and test Job?

    Why doesn't God rule us with an iron fist like he did several thousand years ago when we were his young children?

    We're now his adult "children", and just as parents treat their adult progeny very differently from their young children, perhaps God has stepped back and is allowing us to fight amongst ourselves, up to a point, and make our own decisions.

    Why are the ETs so coy about showing themselves to us?
    It seems to me that the answer is pretty obvious.
 
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