Because we can imagine a scenario where the Christian god appears...
You wake up one morning, turn on the news, and every channel is reporting on a being that has appeared on the White House lawn. This being has snapped his fingers and turned the sun off and on. It's transformed dogs into cats, & baked 30 minute brownies in 5 minutes. In other words, it's performed bona fide godlike miracles.
What will six billion humans possessing free will do?
The faithful will, of course, be infinitely more faithful. A few billion will convert to Christianity on the spot. A billion or so will fall to their knees and call on their own god to smite this god. Millions will ignore what happened, and millions more will reject the god explanation and call this being an alien, Satan, etc. A minority will demand scientific proof.
In other words, human "free will" will remain perfectly intact and functional.
The Christian god has NOTHING to lose, and EVERYTHING to gain by appearing, so WHY DOESN'T HE?
2007-07-31
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