Some say that God is secretive since He wants us to have “free will” and come to Him on our own, but achieving this objective only requires that God not give us any proof of His existence. If this was God’s motive, it would have been better had He not performed a single miracle, so that our decision to come to Him is based on our faith in His message which would need to be clearly a good message and therefore a clear message. The question remains, why did God give us an enigmatic message?
Some will claim that the confusion is the result of the Bible having been altered, but this leaves no reason to have any confidence in any of the Bible. If the Bible is the inspired word of God then God would have to keep every significant passage free from alteration otherwise He was wasting His time sending a message. This mysterious message from God called the Bible was fifteen hundred years in the making, so there is a major plan being executed by the Creator of all existense, but then God allows His communication to be altered?
Some will say that sacred tradition is the answer. Church leaders are said to have the authority to explain the Bible, so we should look to what they’ve said over the centuries. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of ambiguity; and sacred tradition, like all the Protestant attempts to explain the Bible, does not actually make the contradictions go away by merely taking sides. For example, in the Biblical confusion between “free will” and “predestination”, a church leader may declare “free will” the winner, but this doesn’t actually make the predestination verses go away; nor does it explain why the confusion was put there in the first place.
Often the religious “authorities” will make verses they don’t like go away by changing some definitions. This solution suggests that the Bible is not enigmatic because God was giving us a riddle to solve, but because God has poor communication skills. It is saying that God made several poor word choices requiring us to make some corrections, but God would not make poor word choices unless He intentionally wanted to confuse. But if God intentionally wanted to confuse or conceal information why would He use poor word choices as the method of concealment considering that this looks deceptive and unintelligent? If God wanted to keep information secret He would use a complex multilayered riddle which no one can solve demonstrating God’s superior intelligence or God would use a simple riddle, but prevent people from seeing the simple solution demonstrating God’s power and control. We must say that the Bible is a riddle…to say that the contradictions are the result of sloppiness discredits God and the Bible. But if the Bible is a riddle then no one has solved it yet since none of the solutions are consistent with all the clues.
“Modern” theologians will often dismiss verses they don’t like by saying they should not be taken literally, but some of the most problematic passages in the Bible are written in such a manner that they must be taken literally.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
How can this not be taken literally? Okay, so it upsets a lot of people to think that God intentionally created evil, but it’s not inconceivable that God had a good reason. It’s a bit ridiculously to claim that the words “I…create evil” actually means “evil doesn’t exist”. Evil does exist…we’ve seen a lot of it throughout our history…and on occasions we've even felt it within ourselves…and the Bible in very plain language says that God created it. If the Bible is the inspired word of God then it must be a riddle, so this statement that God created evil would have to be considered part of the riddle and disregarding one single clue can make it impossible to deduce the true solution to a riddle.
People want to change the Bible instead of solving it, but the true solution to the Bible must reconcile all contradictions not just pretend they aren’t there. Not just make a choice between “free will” and “predestination”, the true solution must show how both are correct, and it should do this without redefining predestination to mean something other than predestination. The true solution also has to explain why God created evil, and it has to explain why the truth had to be kept secret. The solution that is consistent with every single clue is the real solution to a riddle.
Christ spoke in parables but He said that the whole truth would be revealed at some point in the future by the Holy Spirit. This means that there are some secrets that were not revealed by Christ, so the first coming of the Messiah did not satisfy the conditions for releasing all the information. From the Christian perspective, there are only three historical periods of great significance: creation, the first coming of Christ, and the return of Christ. If the first coming of Christ was not sufficient to release all the information, then it is likely that these secrets will not be revealed until we reach the time of the second coming of Christ which is the end of the world. This may explain why the Biblical book that describes the end is called “The Revelation”.
The idea that a “revelation” of truth occurs just before the end of the world also helps to explain why this information had to be kept secret and why the Bible is so enigmatic. The truth had to be kept secret until the end since this revealed knowledge is what causes the end. Hidden within the riddles of the Bible it is explained why God created evil, and how God destroys evil. This knowledge will enrage the evil egocentric spirits who must then be cast from Heaven causing the period often called Armageddon. As the evil spirits take out their frustrations on humanity, God begins to reveal Himself to His children. This is the awakening that we are approaching.