Impiety of Theism

Impiety of Theism

          A  metamathematical critique of miracles.

          It is notorious that miracles tend to evaporate upon close inspection. This is taken to mean that no miracles exist; but it could also mean that God has decreed that God’s miracles not seem miraculous upon close inspection. Of course that would be an even greater miracle.

          Why would God decree God’s own unprovability? Because a provable God, doing provable miracles, would be a defined, limited and constrained God doing defined, limited and constrained miracles; for proof is definition, limitation and constraint. Any such miracles would eventually be replicable, then mechanizable, then industrializable; and any such a God would then be at man’s command.

But if God exists, then God is free; so if God exists, then God’s existence and miracles cannot be proven. If God exists, then God decrees the unbelievability of miracles; itself the greatest and least believable miracle of all.

If it is God’s will that God’s existence is unprovable, then agnostics, who do not believe, are in obedience to God’s will; whereas theists, who do believe, are in defiance of that will. If God is a mystery, then agnostics are pious and theists are impious!

             A God who exists, but does not seem to exist, would be practicing a curious miracle. Some say that would be a test of faith; shall the believer believe without evidence? I retort that the real test of faith is; will you play along?

            Of course it would be a miracle if this speculation were true!