Oddbean

the common christian doctrine that the 7 days of creation is literal really on one hand emphasises the omnipotent and deemphasises the omniscient a lot of people think of God as simply a really smart person who is also stuck in the realm of time but that is impossible, how else could he give us prophecies that come true, if he didn't know it... why do the texts always say "it is written" and talk about the future like it already has been recorded as history? thus, if he is not bounded by time in our universe, at least, then as far as it goes, he is simply omniscient, and doesn't have to change what he already perfectly created it is only our limited view that makes us think there is injustice in it, in the small span of time we witness this universe and our small place within it that he merely created this little place and painted all these lights on a sphere around us and everything else isn't real is so limited and retarded Truman Show style evil, i can't believe in a God who is this small