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The contradictory nature of God

Christianity is not unique in preaching that Jehovah, or the sky fairy, is all knowing, all present and all powerful – omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent - but I do not know the tenets of the other major faiths as well as I do those of Christianity so I will talk to those ‘powers’ for the content of this blog post.

This may seem utterly trivial but let’s assume that there is a Christian God and that ‘He’ is indeed all of the above. ‘He’ knows everything, ‘He’ can be everywhere and ‘He’ is without bounds in his power. If that is indeed the case then tell me this… why did Judaism need correcting by the invention of Christianity? Surely it required God to make a mistake? Else why create the laws of Judaism in the first place? You can’t argue that the easiest route to a point was via something that was not on a straight line. If God wanted to end up with Christianity then surely ‘He’ would have pointed Adam and Eve on that line? If God really created Adam and Eve with an intention in mind and some thousands of years later changed ‘His’ mind then ‘He’ royally fucked up!

And don’t even go down the route of the serpent in the garden of eden… God KNEW that would happen. Therefore he KNEW he would have to throw them out of the garden. Therefore he KNEW he had created something imperfect!

But because he is omniscient he even knows what his imperfect creation would do. So regardless he could have given a religion to man that would serve him for eternity. He would not need to create Christianity to fix Judaism. He would not need the Christian Church to split into Mormons or Quakers or Billy Grahams or Methodists or Baptists to with slight changes of his original message to satisfy the ‘belief market’. If you can satisfy the belief you can make money from it!

If God was indeed infallible, as we are told, then there would only be one religion. It would be perfect. Everyone would understand that it was perfect and therefore anyone who rejected it would be absolutely righteously delivered into damnation. But the word is not perfect. The bible is not the infallible word of God. It even contradicts itself – just compare the descendancy of Joseph from David in the first verses of the Gospels if you want an example (it’s specifically written in the first verses of two of them although you will have to forgive me for forgetting which two right now). Even consider what the relevance of that is, considering that Joseph was not Jesus’s father!

But today we have a huge number of religions with different messages. None of which can be verified in any way. If you were an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-present God… would you make DAMN sure your creations knew who you were and what you wanted? Isn’t it strange that in the supremely unverifiable Old Testamant that God is really interactive; but in the New Testament he’s hands-off and working through an agent; and since AD32 he’s only been seen in pieces of toast and tea bag stains? Isn’t it strange that  God’s appearances lessened as the human condition improved to understand the Universe ? Kind of like a poor magician who’s outdated by high resolution TV’s and high speed cameras!

I could go on all day about this, but let me summarise what I would do differently if I were an all-powerful, all-knowing God:

• I’d make sure everyone knew I existed.
• I’d make sure there was an INFALLIBLE word of God.
• I’d make sure that I didn’t make mistakes, such as the Apple, the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Tower of Babel, the enslavement of my chosen people, the need to revise my laws, though Jesus etc etc.

Actually, let me just sum that up with one thing…

Since I’m omnipotent, I already know the result of everything I can and will ever do – so there’s no point doing it since I can do it as a thought-experiment and derive just as much satisfaction from it. There’d be no universe.

One thing I would most definitely not do?

I would not allow man to sin in oder that I could incarnate [myself]/[my own son] so that I could sacrifice [myself]/[my son] to forgive you for doing things that I let you do in the first place.

HOW FUCKING NUTS WOULD I HAVE TO BE TO DO THAT!?