How are we to reconcile the fact that not only do others not agree with us, we often contradict ourselves?
The Book of Job addressed the problem of theodicy by simply stating that Job however understandable his complaints about being made to suffer for no apparent reason, had no right to his opinion because he did not know as much as the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God who created the Universe did.
But what if God does not exist?
Atheists find it unbearable to think that they could be obeying the laws of an entirely non-existent being and thereby sacrificing their own pleasure for nothing at all.
For this reason, laws restricting our liberty must make sense and the laws in the Koran do on the whole make sense.
Do we have a choice anyway?
If God did create the Universe and is monitoring the moral progress of each one of us, then we cannot escape His scrutiny.
In any case, if we are ourselves properly scrutinised, measured and judged, then so would others, and this is reassuring.
If more of us believed that a beady eye is being kept on our thoughts, words and deeds, we would be more careful what we thought, said and did, which would be a good thing.
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