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Originally Posted by shakran
That argument suggests some quite nasty things about god doesn't it. Let's review:
1) The earth is really 6,000 years old.
2) we're supposed to have faith in what God tells us.
3) God purposely makes all evidence point to the idea that the earth is a lot older in an attempt to trick us.
Well, to be honest, if a supreme being is out to trick me all the time, I'm really not interested in hanging out in his house after I die.
This argument also lends some interesting philosophical thoughts on god vs. the devil. I thought it was Satan that was supposed to be the dishonest trickster, not God.
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You could look at is as God is the trickster, or you could look at it as God never intended that we go 'check his work' and see if we were correct. We shouldn't have to 'find out' how old the world is, we should accept on faith that he didn't lie to us when so and so wrote Genesis.
God wasn't always thought to be the 'nice guy' people think of today, in fact he did some pretty mean shit in the old testament (Job anybody?). Nobody likes the idea of worshipping the wrathful, vengeful, mean God though, so most churches and even some newer versions of the Bible soften God up quite a bit. You could say that the new testament came around and God had a sort of 'change of heart' but the newer, nicer God didn't make the world did he?