for argument's sake, let us invoke the suspension of disbelief.
Say the God of Abraham truly does exist; and he created the world in 6 days, 6000 years ago. He then blew into a fistful of dirty and human kind was created.
I'm sure the majority of us are familiar with the Old Testament and somewhat knowledgable of the New Testament.
What if the growth and expansion of human technology and exploration has reached a point where we rival God's power. Our ability to manipulate nuclear fission, our discovery of anti-matter and celestial events have rivaled that of what we once considered a divine being.
God made a mistake and made us a little too well. He himself was limited in his powers, but our ancient tribal ancestors were naive and thought of him as omnipotent. We now rival his influence and ability of a species and he got scared by what he saw.
What if he saw us as a threat? He then fled to other realms of existence, or another place in space and time. He knew we had the capacity to reject his influence and demand our biological sovereignty, and to take demand of our reality. He was King Louis XVI fleeing France to Austria to dodge the wrath of his angered subjects who had risen up and taken control; demanded to be treated fairly.
What if God is a totally misunderstood pushover?
The only way he was every able to exercise any real control was veiled threats and outrageous claims of a non-existent afterlife? What if he manipulated Christians, Jews and Muslims for thousands of years and only the recent advent of technology in recent centuries have given us the ability to challenge his cruel, obscene and limited authority?
/end suspension of disbelief
Too bad it's all entirely speculation. I've always thought I should try my hand at writing some high-fiction. I could call it "The Holy Bible: Episode 3"
Seriously... who knows? In another couple hundred years, maybe the Vatican will pick it up and accept as truth and will reform their religion around the sacred document. Through the passage of time and the infallibility of institution it will become the truth.
Just a "what if..."
