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T R U T H H Q

up – agriculture and human infrastructure and building amongst them. And in order to clear up those side issues, there would be a whole lot of other issues to clear as well. And so on. That, it seemed to me, was the trouble with having a super-power. Once you did one miracle you

were kind of obliged to do more and more and more.

And then the inevitable question.

What if you had unlimited power? What if you were God?

If you were an interventionist God and performed one miracle, weren’t you then compelled to do a few other miracles? And once these ones were out of the way, would there not be further miracles needed to tidy up the effects of the previous ones?

The problem seemed to be that once you start off on the interventionist track, then with each new intervention there is a little less free choice for those of us who are the creation of this God. And if intervention had to go on and on then eventually the loss of freedom would become absolute.

It is the classic dilemma of religion – or at least one of them.

It’s not easy being God.

I explained all of this carefully to woolly hat girl. She blinked in consternation, but kept smiling. There’s another dilemma for God that is somewhat related to the interventionist problem. Let’s just say, along with many religions, that things started off with The One – the Perfect Being, we could say, complete unto itself. The One is completely inscrutable. Everything and Nothing, Eternal and Infinite yet timeless and dimensionless. And so on and on. There is really no statement about The One that makes

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