67. Is God Bored?-Eric




• Is God bored? With all due respect. I've wrestled with this idea for several years and it seems no matter how I spin it, I can only come up with the conclusion that God has to be one really bored ethereal entity. With all due respect.
  
  I've discussed this philosophical question with some of my friends, and have decided that if anyone were completely prescient, viewing the universe as a play or movie that has been seen a trillion times, it would be really damned boring.
  
  Now, some of you might argue, sure he might be bored if he weren't active, but God's nature is active. He's constantly designing different worlds perhaps, creating unimaginable life forms, and so on and so on.
  
  This is a really good argument; he occupies himself. This only goes so far though; he already knows what he's going to create and how it will evolve and scatter like a web slowly spreading out.
  
  The other argument is that he "choses" not to see the outcome of everything, that he can somehow turn on and off his prescience at will like a light switch. This argument doesn't have much teeth. First of all, it's akin to the argument of whether God can make a rock he cannot lift. Furthermore, if he choses to flip this precognitive switch off, then how will he know when important things need attention, for example, the plan of redemption. Is there some kind of warning device that alerts him when something has potentially disasterous consequences before he creates it? He says himself, 'Even the hairs on your head are numbered' and that he knew us before we were born.
  
  So, there are no more surprises left for God. And this isn't your garden variety boredom; this is the infinite abyss of bordeom.
  
  Is it blasphemy to feel sorry for our Creator? Everyone is always bitching about him, at him, and generally disbelieving him and he has no new surprises. I'll admit that I've pondered the idea that perhaps because of this infinit boredom that he sometimes has bouts of anger, perhaps that he is even bipolar. But I don't want to project human conditions on to God. Still, it makes me wonder.