Hi, If there is a God, then I'm sure we, his creation, his children are meant to eventually become like him, in terms of wisdom, power, everything. Think of what technology will be like in 300,000 years from now. At some point in our expansion as an outer space civilization, technology is so advanced it merges with the idea of supernatural. The two are to become indistinguishable from one another. We will play with black holes, dimensions and trigger our own Big Bang, create our own universes, play with reality and control our own life and death (and resurrections). If a God really created us and the world and we really are his children, then he, like any good parent, wants his sons to become like him or even exceed him. What kind of generous good creator is that who creates ants only to look down at them and have them below his level. What kind of immortal being creates mortal beings...and needs 6 days for it and even rest afterwards... When for example a scientist, a creator, creates an invention, he makes it to be better than him, to do more than he can do with the power of his bare hands, to improve, to upgrade his own means not to make a downgrade. To me it seems man created by God as of explained by the Bible is a downgrade from the level of God. That kind of God sounds selfish to me. The scientist wants the power of his invention to last and be in the hands of everyone, improve everyone and everything else. If we take an artist he too tries to make his mind timeless and spread a message across eternity. So God is perfect right? Then why does perfection need anything additional aside? Adam and Eve must have been originally designed very imperfect otherwise they would have felt no temptation. If God exists maybe he himself is imperfect. But that doesn't mean he is not good. He might just do the best he can within some limits of his own. So back to Adam & Eve, who were said to be immortal and very similar to God in the beginning... Dedicated Christians would say He gave them the freedom of choice between good and bad... Oh my what an overwhelming sense of generosity! But then that means in all his perfection God himself has no free will and that's why he himself can not be tempted by Satan? But if he has no will of his own then he is not perfect... ...and if his creation is corruptable by a Satan then He too must be. Personally I'd rather believe we are an extension of a god who wanted us to form into this existence because he could not in his own. He - a form of consciousness that slowly puts itself together rather out of nothing through an awfully slow process over an indefinitely long time as infinite combinations of particles and what not, through infinite quantum combinations and laws of probability finally happened to fall in such an order that they could know it. In the beginning when there's no order, infinite chaos, it's so easy for me to imagine that some parts naturally move in the direction of order (or good, constructionist, creativist) more and more until they get a kind of will of their own and in that will they grow to bear less and less of the blurry sleepiness of a some atoms put together, a rudimentary form of perception. The consciousness of a wooden desk and that of a human might both be fundamentally the same, only that the one of the first is far too rudimentary to be within the spectrum of the second. Yet if we get advanced enough, which I believe we will, we will discover & understand more and more of these.
