The question that springs forth from that is thus.
Say we DO meet our creator. They announce themselves, demonstrate they have the power to create and to end all the world's ills. They show beyond all reasonable doubt that they are the entity responsible for everything. They created our universe and could destroy us if they so choose.
They then ask us why we made up all these stories about good and evil, and a load of rules in their name. Wrote books that we worshipped as if they were literally the words of this god we now know in a tangible way. "Nothing my to do with me, and I don't agree with half of them!" they say "You can't all even agree on my name or what rules I'm supposed to have made."
How do you think the religious people of the world would react? Would they accept their holy stories had human value but had nothing to do with the being they had attributed them to? Would they denounce this god as the wrong god and refuse to believe them? Would they look the other way and pretend it never happened? Would any religions survive the invalidation of their faith?
There is no proof of god or gods, only faith, and that is likely all there ever will be. All these thought experiments prove nothing and only serve to create division as people make up answers for those they perceive as having opposite views. We will never, ever know. We're better off just being content in our own belief systems and leaving everyone else to theirs. No debate, no anger, no religious wars, just peaceful co-existence. Let's have our beliefs, and if we think everyone who believes differently is a deluded fool, let's keep it to ourselves.
You know the Bible has some interesting examples of just that. People meeting him and what happen. Some believed. Some denied. Others were indifferent. The God i know is the must loving and caring being you would ever want to meet. But people must meet him in their own way and time. Faith cannot be forced. This verse helps explain.
Matthew 13 King James Version (KJV)
13 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
