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If we try and give God credit for having every ones collective best interests at heart rather than being an autocratic despot, we can envision the desire for a communion amongst all living things in synthesis with their Creator.
Envisioning is not the problem. Reality is. We can envision anything we want, but that doesn't help us deal with day to day living and survival.
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As to why God foreknew that we would somehow choose to think otherwise is indeed a mystery. Its almost as if humanity is still at the rebellious teenager stage where we surely know more than our parent and want to have the right to choose to do things our way as a sign of our maturity.
I would say that religion is like a rebellious teenager. They have problems cutting the apron string.
"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz
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