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Sunday 5 December 2010

Sunday Sermon: How to use God to your advantage even if you do not believe He exists

Voltaire:

"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him"

Does this sentence mean it is finally official that God definitely exists?

If so, what should Man do with his perfect, omnipotent and eternal creation?

Is it not a delicious paradox that Man who is flawed, foolish and frightened should create God simply by wishing Him into existence? That is indeed Godlike.

If God exists because Man created Him, why was it necessary for Man to invent Him?

Man, being flawed, foolish, frightened and mortal created God to assist him in his government, morality and spirituality - in the obtaining of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.  

God was created by Man so that he may more judiciously tread the fine line between good and evil as well as tell the difference between his long and short term interests.

Who is to be assigned the task of treading the fine line between good and evil etc?

Why, leaders of course.  Leaders who have the attribute of Wisdom to discern what is Truth,  Reality and Reason in service of Justice.

Which religion shall we use?

The best one: the most advanced, the most improved, with the clearest instructions from one source.

No one can deny that the Old and New Testaments are not the direct Word of God.  They contain mere reported speech and hearsay.  The Koran claims to be the direct Word of God.

Let us therefore read and analyse what God tells us to do at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=310958681842 where the Koran Book Club is located.  You don't have to like Muslims or Islam to join, only be prepared to read and discuss what you have read.

But that's probably expecting too much of you, huh?  Read a book - the very idea!  You of course already know everything you need to know about Muslims and Islam, namely that you hate and fear them and want nothing to do with them.

But pride comes before a fall ...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know that the Koran is written by a man/men and that is all I need to know, as is the Bible

Claire Khaw said...

God is just Santa Claus for adults. I have no problem accepting this.

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