For those who take their Holy Books seriously.
God is to be the Ultimate.
He is to be omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient.
His omnipotence is stated in [the Bible] Revelation 19:6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound
of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For
the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
In [the Koran] there is al-Haj
22:74 They have not appraised Allah
with true appraisal. Indeed, Allah is
Powerful and Exalted in Might. With
this, there is nothing that God cannot do; to state positively, God has the
ability to do anything and everything.
His omnipresence as stated in [the Bible] Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and
the good. In [the Koran] The Cow, it is said Unto Allah belong the East and the West, and whirthersoever
ye turn, there is Allah’s countenance.
Lo! Allah is All-Embracing,
All-Knowing. With this, there is no
place that is without God; to state positively, God is everywhere, at all times.
His omniscience as stated in [the Bible] Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. In [the Koran] at-Tawbah 9:15 And remove the
fury in the believers’ hearts. And Allah
turns in forgiveness to whom He wills; and Allah is Knowing and Wise. With this, there is nothing that God does not
know; to state positively, God knows all things.
Combine the three, and we have God/Allah who is everywhere,
knows everything and can do anything desired.
Both the Bible and Koran refer to the same [monotheistic] God, so God here
will refer to that one.
Is God just? Let us
look at ‘Original Sin’ with Adam, Eve, and The Serpent.
First, on God’s being ‘omnipotent‘: being all-powerful,
there is no act that God could not do, so if one was acting wrongly, that
individual could be targeted. When a
sniper is called to a hostage situation, if violence is immanent against the
hostage, the sniper is to eliminate the hostage taker. An all-powerful one who can speak things into
existence, change things at will, would have an easier time than a shooter who
has to take into account numerous variables that could affect a shot. However, if that sniper decided to not only
shoot the hostage taker, but also target and kill the hostage used as a shield,
and then all the bound hostages, we would say that sniper was guilty of murder;
if he accidentally killed a hostage, it was a reflection of his not being fully
in control. We do not say that with God,
who for the acts of one (or all three for Original Sin), decided to condemn every
individual from every generation of man afterward. Similarly, in Exodus God could have changed Pharaoh’s heart (soften it instead of
harden), or just targeted Pharaoh, but instead God targeted people who had
nothing to do with the oppression of His people; one more example includes the
entire planet, save Noah and his family.
When just the guilty could be targeted, God also targeted the
innocent. Look at Job, and all those
near Job and how they suffered and died for no sin of their own.
God is not just.
Next, as God is ‘omnipresent,’ God would have been present
during the commission of the Original Sin; God was present when the sin
happened as it happened. This ties into
‘omniscient.’ First point to consider,
if God was present, and knew everything, He could have interceded and convinced
each of their error to prevent Original sin; God did not stop it. God would have already known what would happen
when He put all the individuals and components of Original Sin in place. Yet, God still put everyone (Adam, Eve and
The Serpent) in a place with The Tree of Knowledge where the three could have
easy access. God was present, knew, and
allowed things to happen. As God knew
things would happen, they were planned to happen – had to happen – otherwise it
would be a thing that God did not know, and that could not be. An unknown thing violates omniscience.
From the beginning of Creation (Garden of Eden), God has a
plan on how to end existence (Apocalypse).
In [the Bible] Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel
both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Similarly, in [the Koran] The
Reality 69:13-15 And when the trumpet
shall sound one blast. And the earth with the mountains shall be lifted up and
crushed with one crash, Then, on that day will the Event Befall.
As mentioned earlier, God hardened Pharaoh’s heart; earlier
in the chapter, Pharaoh hardened his own, but later God hardened his
heart. If it was already hard, why would
it need to be hardened again? How could
there be a chance at change if it is prevented – ensured that Pharaoh’s heart would
remain hard? 2 Thessalonians 2:9 shows that people are not to change, as God
will not allow it For this reason God
sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie. People are deceived by proxy from God to
believe lie that will lead to their being punished, just as the firstborn in
Egypt who had nothing to do with Pharaoh’s heart. Through force and fraud, denying another
their ability to make their own choices, and then punishing them for not making
the choice one wanted, is not free will and is not just.
Let us return to God’s characteristics of omnipotent,
omnipresent and omniscient. As the verses
state, these are characteristics God possesses, and examples are given of what
God does and that there is a plan only God knows. A plan.
A plan means that each individual has a path to follow in order to
achieve the plan; if any individual did not follow the plan, then the plan
would collapse: the Butterfly Effect and Chaos Theory. Each person would have to follow the plan in
order for an omniscient God to not be wrong; each person would not have free
will in order to ensure that they followed their portion of the plan correctly. God is everywhere with all power to ensure
his all-knowing predictions come to fruition.
Every part, from Original Sin to the Apocalypse would be
part of the plan, as well as every detail in between. One degree off is not 100%, so there could
not be any variation, any free will to deviate from the plan. Every boon, but also every bit of suffering –
the mass starvations, diseases, terror attacks, rapes, slavery – and all else
would have been planned in advance, with victims preordained, as well as
perpetrators.
One of the clearest examples is in following Christian
dogma: Judas is one of the most important figures in the bible; without him there
is no crucifixion, no ‘redemption’.
Numerous verses in the Old Testament (Isaiah, Zechariah, Psalm, among others) predict Christ’s coming,
including the crucifixion. Someone had
to ‘betray’ Jesus. Luke and John blame the
devil for turning Judas’ heart; however, God is the omnipotent, omnipresent and
omniscient one. God knew it would
happen, was there when it happened, and allowed it to happen, just as He did
with Adam, Eve, and The Serpent.
All of
it had to be, with no one, not even The Serpent or Satan having a choice.
If you want to give credit to God for all things in life,
including boons, then God equally deserves blame for all the suffering in
life. He knew it would come, was there
when it happened, and allowed it, just as He will be for anything to come. God does not just allow things to happen, but
directs them – He made it happen.
If there was the tri-omni God, there would be no free will
and no justice.
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