Coin flipping for eternity

Essentially flipped a coin (the universal decision maker) to see if God is God, creator of heaven on Earth. Seems like a totally absurd way to decide anything, but this conviction I have that Christ is the center, no matter how absurd it may feel at times to the rational mind, is after all a conviction that persists.

If God is, and if the God who exists is Cause and Creator, then there must be a way of understanding the world as it actually is and how it came to be this way that explains why God lets it be this way. And if God is powerless over how the world actually is, if he just put the universe in motion and has to hope with the rest of us that things will turn out OK, then what use is there in having a God?

If God is, and the world is the way that it actually is because humanity is in rebellion against God, then God’s sovereignty is preserved. The eschatological hope of unmediated relationship with God, includes the eschatological promise that all that is not in relationship with God will be done away with. That is the hope that justice will be done.

And if God is, how do we know about him? General vs special revelation all over again. General revelation leads you to the point at which you can say that there is some kind of order to the universe, some apparent intelligence or design. Or it might lead you to the point at which you say that the order in the universe is self-generating, and the tendency to order must be balanced with the tendency to entropy. All a meaningless ordering and disordering of essentially empty matter and energy. God’s just a reassuring emotional coping mechanism for living beings in the middle of all this.

General revelation essentially leads us nowhere fast. In pre-modern times it led categorically to belief, in modern times to atheism, in post-modern times to uncertainty. So if general revelation can never be the deciding factor are we left with the promise of continuing post-modern discomfort with certainty, a perpetual unresolved openness? If we turn instead to special revelation, we’re faced with Babel, that fundamental confusion of competing voices that’s been with humanity since the dawn of language.

Do we just need to pick a religion and go with it? Keep in mind that our particular religion (determined by culture, birth, accidents all) is just one possible? Or having picked, believe that God put us down in our particular place so that we could have all the accidents of birth etc lead us to the True Religion? How do you explain the Mormons? How do you get to Truth through special revelation? Can religion ever be anything more than an endless stream of questions?

So coin flipping for an answer from God to prove his existence. Coin flipping for eternity. 4 yeses out of 7 to prove that God is God and Jesus is his only Son. Out of 7 because we're in the middle of Stanley Cup playoffs. 4 because 3 in a row could be just chance (but let's face it 1,000,000 in a row could be just chance, just a very very small chance). What number between 3 and infinity would satisfy? Absurd and serious at the same time. From here on in, just bracket the question of is it True? Just live as if I have my answer and enjoy the comfort of salvation.