“Face the facts!” Is what I always tell
whosoever tries to real himself/herself against the obvious: that God is not like
a man – He ALWAYS has been, and will be seeing things around man in differed
arbitrations; and that God’s so-called philosophy-of-man is neither magic-like
nor a plain-hound science class with taints of law here and there. God has
been, is, will come to be, and will forever be… It doesn’t matter how much we
may or may not like the taste of that
to our minds and hearts…
One art mankind has protected with might
and unto feverish perfection is the unchallenged ability to wrestle against
truth. Offer him one truth and be sure to see it face the gristly chance of
being multidimensional, multipurpose, multicultural, multi-controversial… just
folded into manifold complexity…he seems to be happy and overly enthusiastic with
the intertwining in such ability.
And as discovery-pon-discovery comes to the
open world he lives in, he wee-fully coughs it out wherever he goes. It makes him
feel rather fat. It makes him bellow
and beam with queer deportment. It makes mankind style up his common pride with confusing colored realisms… only to
want to clutch at the darkest ends of his erroneous arguments…
To many, God should be taken to a
rehabilitation centre – because to them, He is such a merciless tyrant. To
them, He is such a creepy Master with zealous antics and a fanatic inclination
towards barbarism…This is how they always are found ranting:
“How dare He want us all to do what He thinks is right?” they ask.
“How dare He question our misdeeds while in
His most perfect sense of senses He has known our damned and most agonizing weaknesses and how they endlessly
overpower our ability to become like Him?” “How dare He think that we can be, in any way
imagined possible, like Him?”
“How dare he?” they ask…
That is the fright. That is the madness man
always has against God. That is the dismay and pain mankind faces when trying
to deal and debate against a God they
can’t see, yet who seems to control every little thing they do. It forces man to ask questions. He asks
questions. He makes noise. He refuses to understand God... That is how so many
of us feel while facing our own created impossibilities in the name of justifying
our negative shoves against “what God has created and done…”
“I don’t like how He treats us – how He
treats mankind…”, we say.
Some say He (God) claims to be having control
over all the heavens and the earth. Some believe it. Some think God is not even
present – that he is nonexistent. Some abhor him and His “impossible world…” All
these sum up into a series of strangles against what that same God teaches us
and wants us to understand as an infallible truth: that He exists from the ends to the ends of time…
In such times of doubt and loudly
pronounced harangues, man has therefore two options to lean on:
1) to pretend that he knows not what God is
all about and dispense all his soul and might into understanding Him…or 2) to
fight against him… And as always, he chooses one…
God sojourns all around us, maybe with us
knowing a little of him or without us knowing at all; but He does anyway. God
walks around us. What mankind is tempted to do (and what he claims is the
ultimate do-or-do) all the time God moves around is to equivocally strive to - and
with suspended surety – believe in a God ‘he has no choice’ but to believe in. Such
a God, as he may want to define Him, places the greatest and toughest of laws
between this man’s obedience and the thereafter reward(s). And that He (God)
comes out to be such a merciless judge (I don’t know where men find that one
from) who is offensive to man - at most all the time…
Those are lame products from minds
describing a God I have never met and don’t think will ever meet…A God that has
no description of love as part of Him… that to me, is their own God. Not mine…My
God is different. My God doesn’t force Himself into people’s lives or will… My
God doesn’t suppress mankind with intolerable laws…My God is different… My God
is different…My God allows me to do what I please – whether pleasant or not, it
is always my choice as Christian…It is always my choice to do what He says or
not… Even if He knows my beginning to my end, He neither forces Himself into my
world nor forces me into His. I allow Him to come in, and I can as well march
out; with all the freedom I’ve got...
We fall in the danger of becoming a secular
humanists or existentialists when we support the norm that God occasionally
uses force to justify His means thus making Him more of a Machiavellian
operating under that ancient tagline: the
ends justify the means... The end result is magnifying God in a rather
opposite direction – shows Him as one such supernatural creature who doesn’t
care so much about how He reaches at making a person (or people) better
(according to what He describes to be better), so long as He can make
him (or them) bow lowest and in such ways that may be most unpleasant to his (or
their) weak flesh…
Take for instance, the atheist arguing about
nonexistence and God. I always wonder how a nonexistent factor (that is God to
an atheist) can be the central flux in a major
philosophy for decades. It translates either to lunacy or lack of considering
the laws of logic. I think it is common sense that no-one argues with or about
nothing… How can non-existence (or in
the case of an atheist, a non-existent God) lay itself across the spasms of
humanity and demand loyalty? And force subjectivity? Man cannot obey nothing,
right? I think so. I think that there is no such thing as subjectivity unto an empty entity…
The debate therefore is, if that God, Jehovah,
is forceful, then He should also be cruel; because force also gathers unto
itself cruelty. He should then be covering up for His misdeeds in the name of
wanting to make people better. And if so, He should then be like some
other god I hear about (but would rather not mention) – such a god who has
never cared for the fate of his followers as long as they obey him in every way…
And with such heightened claims against the
God of Christianity, and His so-called impossible world of force-for-My-gain,
we meet also Theodicy: an aspect of arguing out why and how a good, loving and
merciful God allows bad things to
happen to good people… [This is a
topic for another day…]
Whenever we see God as forceful, even in
the realms of Christianity, we are falling for the philosophy of the secular
humanist or the naturalist who believes that God is oppressive to mankind and
is not entirely pleased with the well being of mankind as a whole (read,
globally).
To me, that is not true.
If God is forceful at all, his followers
(we Christians) will come out to be forceful too and thus may become opponent
to the moral values which are equally important to all.
None of us is spared the doubt that God may be forceful to some extend. None of
us has escaped the snare of thinking that God has always had the freedom to
force men into doing as He pleases… And as much as I may want to make a defense
against it, this debate really never ends…
What do you think?
Morris.
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