Would Gd Trick Us?

Me: ... No, the world just "looks" 15 billion years old.

Him: Nonsense, why would Gd try to pull the wool over our eyes, Gd isn't in the business of tricking people?


Me: Are you so sure about that? Gd tricks us in numerous ways 1 . The Yetzer Harah 2. Yaakov with Gd's help used trickery to fuffill what was needed. 3. Paroah was "tricked" vis a vis his heardening of his heart. 4. Gd creates Good and Creates Evil, why is trickery outside his bounds if he achieves a Just goal? 5. Hester Panim (The hiding of Gd's "face") Gd is known as a hidden Gd. hiding is often associated with decieving. 6 . False Prophets, Baalam, Miracles in general. 7 . Jewish humour is often known for thier wisdom and being able to outwit, i.e. trick, others. 8. Abraham "lied/tricked" Egypt about his wife Sarah. 9 . No two prophets ever had the same story word for word, if they were real. this tends to lead to confusion rather than being straight forward. 10. We have stories of tricking our enemies, and we have stories of rabbis "tricking" people into observing more mitzvot.

*pant* Got my mandetory 10 examples out there, sorry if any of them overlap, I wanted to make my list look big. Perhaps to trick you into thinking I had more than one valid argument :)