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God
(Part 4)
Text below comes from The Spirits' Book, by Allan Kardec
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
Is God a being distinct from the universe or is God, according to the opinion of some, the result of all the forces and pieces of intelligence of the universe?
"If the latter were true, God wouldn't be God because the Omnipotent would be effect, and not cause. The Almighty cannot be both effect and cause."
"God exists. You cannot
deny the Supreme Majesty's existence and this is an essential
point. Don't seek going beyond it. Don't lose yourselves
in a maze which, for you, has no purpose. Such inquiries
wouldn't make you better. They
would
rather tend to increase your pride by
making you think that you
know something while you, really, don't know anything. Put aside
theories.
You have things enough to think that concern you much more
nearly, beginning with improving yourselves. Study your own
imperfections, so
that you may get rid of them. This will be far more useful to you than
the vain attempt to penetrate the impenetrable."
What
about the opinion according to which all natural bodies, all
beings, all globes of the universe are parts of the divinity and
constitute, in their totality, the divinity itself; in other words, the
pantheistic theory?
"Unable to make
themselves God, humans want to be at least a part of
God."
Those who hold this theory advocate to find in it the demonstration of some divine attributes. The worlds of the universe, being infinitely numerous, God is thus seen to be infinite; vacuum, or nothingness, being nowhere, God is everywhere. God being everywhere, since everything is part of God, the Creator is thus seen to be the intelligent cause of all the universe phenomena. What can we oppose to this argument?
"The dictates of reason. Reflect on this assumption and you will easily find its absurdity."
The pantheistic theory makes God a material being who, although endowed with a supreme intelligence, would only be, on a larger scale, what we are on a smaller one. But as matter is incessantly undergoing transformation, God, if this theory were true, would have no stability. The Almighty would be subject to all vicissitudes, and even all needs, of humanity. The Most High would lack one essential attribute of divinity: unchangeableness. The properties of matter cannot be attributed to God without degrading the idea of divinity. All sophistry subtleties fail to solve the problem of God's essential nature.
We don't know what God is, but we know what God shouldn't be. The theory just stated contradicts the most essential divine attributes. It confounds creator and creation, precisely as if we consider a machine as being a part of the engineer who invented it.
The intelligence
of God is revealed in the divine works, as the talent of
a painter is revealed in
their pictures,
but the works of God are not God, just like the portraits
are not the
artist who created them.
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want that others do
to you. (Matthew 7:12)
You'll know the truth and the truth will make you free.
(John
8:32)
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God is fair and
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Unshakable faith is only
that which can
always face reason. (Allan
Kardec)
