A Question About Deception

I'd like to take this opportunity to say hello, I'm one of those people you've suspected have been watching you as I lurk about EvC.In reading through the topics from the last few years over the last month or so and I've come across several debates where YECs and other creationists have used arguements such as.....

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God could have created the Earth/Sun/Universe with the appearance of great age along with creating other false evidences in order to test your faith for whatever reason

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Paraphrasing obviously,So I have a question, if God is willing to decieve mankind about the age of the Earth, where then does the deception actually lie? How do you know that modern science isn't more or less correct about the age of the Universe, the age of Earth, and the origin of life and the Bible was meant as the deception? He could've very well have had the Bible written in the hopes that many of it's stories would be rejected as accurate portrayals of history one day.

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Let's suppose that God created the earth with apparent age as someone would a stressed look for a table or something, a matter of personal style.

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Here lies the heart of my dilemma, you could turn that around just as easily, let's assume that God created the Universe billions of years ago and so on, then told some guys to write these books saying otherwise and is waiting for a time when humanity learns enough about the world around to reject said books. Either scenario is just as likely as the other.

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I mean it's not God's fault if men create myths of their own choosing

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But is it not his fault if he creates a situation knowing full well that it would be misinterpreted beforehand? He could have just as easily made the Universe suitable to his taste and yet internally consistent.

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God reveals Himself to you in His own way, personalized even, but not one's own dictation but of God's choosing.

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But again, if he decides to reveal himself to me in a way he knows will not convince me is it not his fault since he knew it wouldn't work, and not only that he created me that way so he has nobody to blame but himself if it doesn't workout.