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T R U T H H Q

any sense. But now, think about the created world. There needs to be two or more things in order for there to be difference in things. There has to be difference before there can be observation – since we can only sense anything because of its difference to other things. There has to be sensing – observing – before there can be choice. There has to be choice before there can be freedom. There has to be freedom before there can be agency. So – putting all these things together – there can only be free agents in the world if there is a Many rather than a One.

This, in fact, is what several religious traditions assume. The Bible refers to God as plural in the book of Genesis. The One – the Godhead – first became the Many and then made the many of creation.

So far, so good. But then the problem. The One is prefect. The Many, however, is

flawed. And it may be that this is inevitable – that the step from the One to the Many will always result in imperfection. God, it seems, in creating, was willing to accept the imperfection that would inevitably result.

You, dear reader, may object at this point. Surely – God being God – a perfect world would have been possible. Otherwise God’s power has been limited. But I’d counter by saying that God cannot achieve a logical impossibility. God cannot, for instance, make something both exist and not exist at the same time. So if the step from One to Many NECESSARILY results in imperfection then there is no way around this. It’s not easy being God.

The choices with regard to creation lead us back to the interventionist conundrum: Either:

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