Can you elaborate...I don't follow your logic. Why would god be knowable without a universe (hence he had to create something to be unknowable)? Wouldn't he have already been unknowable, since there was ostensibly nothing to know him? And how did you establish as a fact that the universe had a purpose without first presuming the existence of the god?
It isn't that God would be knowable without a universe (we wouldn't exist in the first place), it's that God couldn't have a Big Bang to hide It's existence behind so and thus must necessarily influence our free will by the mere knowledge of It's existence.
I don't under stand your second question?
And this is simply a speculation based on the assumption that God does exist. If It doesn't, then this is all out the window. Consider this: There's no evidence either way that God does or doesn't exist. If the universe came to be spontaneously, you'd think that without a will behind the creation, that there would be evidence coming to light for there being no creator--like say a pickle particle that was detected from before that Big Bang that might have caused the singularity. The lack of evidence suggests a possible purpose for there being no such evidence. But, unfortunately, we can't use a lack of evidence, as evidence. How unhelpfully convenient.
he first four words of your reply (IF a god exists...)are at the heart of the problem.....the existence of the god has not yet been established.
"consider that god could eliminate...." How can we consider what the god can or would do or not do in a given set of circumstances (circumstances which we also cannot know)
Why would an infinite being be endowed with human emotion (boredom, etc)?
Consider that a God, if It exists, who had the power to create the universe, would for all effects and purposes be omnipotent. Therefore, I can only think of one thing that God couldn't do instantaneously--share It's
moral free will with fully self-aware creatures, while not influencing our exercise of same. Can you? And who says that emotions are limited to mortals.** Would you claim that God would be incapable of the emotion of love? I believe that any conscious, self-aware entity would crave companionship of something other than yes-angelic extensions of Itself, at least we have no reason to believe otherwise. I believe that the Bible got this part right, that our image by which we are likened to God (if It exists), is not our physical appearance, but our free will born of our full self-awareness.
** A ship without reason is without rational guidance, and without the motive power of emotions, is dead in the water.
