>>828344
Hi OP, thank you for visiting. I was where you were at one time. I’ll do my best to explain these diffcult mysteries in a relatable way. Here’s the sense I personally made out of those points over time:
>Why did God do things that are inconvenient for humanity?
You have to first understand that God didn’t create existence for the pleasure or convenience of anyone other than himself. The same applies to movies, books, and video games we create. All have characters that have unfortunate things happen to them, they suffer, die, etc. These works weren’t created for the convenience of the characters, but that of the creators.
Have you ever killed someone in a video game? All of those questions can then be applied to you
>Why did God’s story involve the belief of his existence being the ultimate goal?
- It makes sense if you consider the possibility that existence is an experiment. Our brains don’t have the hard disk space to perceive God in all his fullness. You can’t put 2TBs of memory on a 50 gig HDD. So the whole experiment might be “can they know me and do my will without seeing me?” Introducing different variables, etc, to test the outcome.
Going back to the video game analogy, when you’re playing a game, and you change the difficulty or rules or whatever variables, why do you do it? It’s for your own pleasure to experience things under different outcomes. Why God does what he does, it doesn’t need to take our understanding or feelings into account. The universe wasn’t created for our convenience.
>Conflicting Gospel accounts
- In Christianity (and Judaism), we believe our works are “inspired.” God didn’t write the exact words that each writer used. Instead, he INSPIRED writers and they all wrote in their own style and from there own perspective.
Because these scriptures are carried by human hands, the details are not always perfect. Dates and places are screwy, information conflicts based on varying memories, but the thing all the writers testify to are true.
IMHO, I think the conflicting memories of events are an greater testimony to the truth. If everyone remembered something identically, it would mean a person group gathered together to invent it.
>The Trinity
- Think of God as an interface. Behind/within the interface are 3 “persons” or unique identities. But we can only interact with the interface itself, and everything that they do individually comes through as being done by the 3 of them together outside of the interface.
Again going back to video games, say you’re playing a 3 player game with two buddies. The characters in the game are unable to see you, personally (the human beings), but every time one of you presees a button it creates a change in the gaming environment.