I was eating lunch (spaghetti squash, lightly salted and topped with pasta sauce and parmesan cheese – very tasty) when a commercial for ChristianMingle.com, a Christian dating website, came on the TV. According to the announcer their registered slogan is Find God’s Match for You ®.
My instant thought was: God’s match? Really?
The Supreme Being, Creator of the Universe and all the trillions of stars and planets in it – not to mention people, animals, plants, and sundry whatnot – has created a soul mate for you, but this omnipotent Being somehow can’t find a way for the two of you to meet without the help of a dating website?
Really?
And assuming that is true, how does God do that? Let’s say you visit the website, you enter your personal information into a form, you press Search, and then … what happens? Does God rig the results of the website’s search engine? Does He flip bits and bytes inside the software? Or does God intercept the HTML flowing to your computer and substitute His own stream of HTML? Does God know about things like HTML and Active Server Pages? Or does He use magic, as when He said “Let their be light”?
Call me skeptical, call me cynical, but I suspect the Supreme Being may not actually get involved in the selection process, so just … be careful out there. And good luck.
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