I always have one theory.
I think there's very likely there is a god/supreme entity, one that has the power to perform large scale miracles, foresee the future etc but never all powerful (since it's logically impossible), and it did in human history planted the seeds for various religions, leaving scattered clues and artifacts for potential religious followers to put together their believes.
It's a test for everyone, to see how much we trust our own intelligence and our ability to have a free will, how we manage to merge faith and logic into one and have a broader view of our world. How we stood up with something so powerful and so real with self believe and value, without turning into a blind follower or someone who blindly disbelieve. And most importantly, how we can look beyond the various bibles in their face values and figure out ways to accomodate different faith and opinion.
So there's no hell, no afterlife, no need to freak out if someone really discover Noah's ark and put it in the British Museum, and you don't need to listen to those butthead christian fundamentalists, because although individual thought is not perfect/sinless, it's how we are ought to be, and we are never expected to be perfect, or play to one straight value that even our little mind can see won't accommodate most of us.
I think there's very likely there is a god/supreme entity, one that has the power to perform large scale miracles, foresee the future etc but never all powerful (since it's logically impossible), and it did in human history planted the seeds for various religions, leaving scattered clues and artifacts for potential religious followers to put together their believes.
It's a test for everyone, to see how much we trust our own intelligence and our ability to have a free will, how we manage to merge faith and logic into one and have a broader view of our world. How we stood up with something so powerful and so real with self believe and value, without turning into a blind follower or someone who blindly disbelieve. And most importantly, how we can look beyond the various bibles in their face values and figure out ways to accomodate different faith and opinion.
So there's no hell, no afterlife, no need to freak out if someone really discover Noah's ark and put it in the British Museum, and you don't need to listen to those butthead christian fundamentalists, because although individual thought is not perfect/sinless, it's how we are ought to be, and we are never expected to be perfect, or play to one straight value that even our little mind can see won't accommodate most of us.