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Example: A child dies praying for a miracle that never comes. A theologian says, "God's ways are mysterious." The grieving parent asks, "Why make the way of basic recognition so mysterious first?" If a human parent hid from their lost, crying child to "test their love," we'd call it cruelty. The hard problem: Theistic explanations for hiddenness (e.g., to preserve free will, to build character) seem grossly disproportionate to the resulting oceans of suffering, doubt, and misdirected worship. A God who could end all sincere existential confusion with a wink chooses instead a world where most of humanity worships conflicting, man-made images of Him. Hard Problem of Theism.
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