I will speculate, the dilemma for God is he wants communication with us, he wants to guide us beyond our behavioral limitations, while remaining uncertain to us without physical certainty. Thus as Halbhh noted, we must have what is referred to as faith. Today though we are flawed with original sin, God may be revealing himself in subtle invisible uncertain ways to those who seek him, pray to him, love him through faith alone, and are obedient to his will as presented in The Bible and especially through his son Jesus Christ.
So God is likely to want we beings that have a mind, intelligence, learning, and conscience to do things from our own free will within our innate nature and not as a consequence of external coercion and fears. Again, if coerced by fears with certainty even many with innate tendencies to be sinful, evil, and criminal would also believe and be obedient.
From the perspective of evolution for the sake of having meaning to those that believe such, one might speculate if descendants of unbelievers who actually saw God or his signs in certainty, if left alone to mere faith, would return to their innate negative natures. Conversely over generations people who believe by faith alone if evolution has effects, will tend to have descendants that have more positive behaviors as a result of their innate nature. In this way, God whose essence is love, sees a future when we fulfill his vision of what we at the pinnacle of creation on his beloved planet, can become. In other words, for we humans to evolve to what God wants us to become he must filter out those of us with those negative sinful tendencies using the same evolutionary process of physically evolved DNA and brain changes that from the secular perspective was used to get us to this point. And such may be deeply dependent on complexities of our minds that are otherwise impossible to change quickly even by a god given limitations.
That God works in such ways, one might consider Abraham's son's Ishmael and Hagar an indication he was seeking positive traits in humans and rewarding such with special favor that might rise over generations through natural human procreative processes...processes one might argue are Gods.
So God is likely to want we beings that have a mind, intelligence, learning, and conscience to do things from our own free will within our innate nature and not as a consequence of external coercion and fears. Again, if coerced by fears with certainty even many with innate tendencies to be sinful, evil, and criminal would also believe and be obedient.
From the perspective of evolution for the sake of having meaning to those that believe such, one might speculate if descendants of unbelievers who actually saw God or his signs in certainty, if left alone to mere faith, would return to their innate negative natures. Conversely over generations people who believe by faith alone if evolution has effects, will tend to have descendants that have more positive behaviors as a result of their innate nature. In this way, God whose essence is love, sees a future when we fulfill his vision of what we at the pinnacle of creation on his beloved planet, can become. In other words, for we humans to evolve to what God wants us to become he must filter out those of us with those negative sinful tendencies using the same evolutionary process of physically evolved DNA and brain changes that from the secular perspective was used to get us to this point. And such may be deeply dependent on complexities of our minds that are otherwise impossible to change quickly even by a god given limitations.
That God works in such ways, one might consider Abraham's son's Ishmael and Hagar an indication he was seeking positive traits in humans and rewarding such with special favor that might rise over generations through natural human procreative processes...processes one might argue are Gods.
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