I know I probably shouldn't be saying this because I'm sure it will offend some people (so all apologies in advance), but jakup posting about god creating man and knowing the future etc got me thinking.

If god created man and knew every possible future, then he must have screwed up in some aspect. Either he messed up when creating man (otherwise a&e wouldn't have eaten the fruit of knowledge), or he could only see his idealised future (otherwise he would have known they were going to eat the fruit) or he didn't see that within himself was need to be all powerful (if god created man in his own image then their succumbing to temptation came from Him).

Surely I'm missing something, but I'm not the religious type. I believe that everyone is entitled to their only beliefs and that whatever you believe is true (to you) so long as you believe it.

I think a lot a about the many possible truths of this universe (some scientific, some spiritual and some that are just ridiculous but kinda explain everything better than can be done through facts). For example, perhaps our universe is a simulation created by an artificial superintellect to keep our minds enslaved and DMT is the only way to see reality as it truly is ("get me a hard line." /me hooks a 44 gallon drum of DMT solution to his vein. Lol)