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You've put me in a situation where I feel compelled to apologize for god's actions. I don't think this would necessarily mean he was doing this to be a malicious trickster.
If he made it obvious, then you could scientifically prove that the Earth was 6000 years old, which would be proof that the Bible was the actual truth, and then it wouldn't be a matter of faith. The Christian god places faith above almost everything else, so if you take away the faith and prove god exists, that ruins everything. So to save your soul, god has to put misleading evidence so that you can still have faith.
Of course, the real reason religions need faith is because that's the tool that the religious leaders use to exert power and control over the people they're tricking. And of course, that makes young earth creationists the biggest suckers in a sea of suckers.
lol, if god just wanted faith he could just build everything as is. He's not turning up (except when he does) and proving his existence so misleading evidence is not required. A test of faith would be normal bad things happening (which he just lets happen) and believers continuing their belief in spite of it.
No, hiding misleading evidence is definitely a malicious trickster god action. Turns out Abraham's god is actually just Loki without his funny hat and wearing a beard. The funny hats he makes his reps on earth wear is evidence of this as well.
I think that if god wants faith, all he has to do is preprogram it into us.
Instead, he takes this very circuitous route where he gives us the ability to reason, which works for every topic except religion. Only for religion, we need to throw that ability to reason aside.
Who could look at this creation and see anything but perfection?