What
Baseball-club owner would pay his worst ball-player the
same money as his best? Since he is the owner he can do
anything and even through compassion make such a reward.
But let's measure the disadvantages of such a measure,
his club would go bankrupt and his worst players would
never strive to be better while his best players would
do less since it makes no sense to be the best.
Baseball
will become non-competitive and the millions who would
be deprived of its entertainment will no longer support
it, not to mention the thousands that will be affected
by employment.
If
there were such an owner who lacks such business sense,
he would be called a fool, won't he? A fool has no value
for time or knowledge and so he remains a fool all his
life. It certainly requires no effort to be a fool and
in the end he repents for being a fool and gains
salvation.
On
the other hand, a wise man that values his time and
works diligently and strenuously daily all his life, in
his efforts through austerity to attain higher wisdom
also gains salvation.
Now I
ask what would we call the 'All-powerful' God of the
Bible, that can do anything, who gives the same reward
of heaven to both a fool and a wise man? To an
intelligent soul, he is not only human like the
Ball-club owner but even more
foolish.
Redemption is a fool’s passport to a
fool's paradise.
All theories or facts, theological or
scientific, must conform with
NATURAL
LAWS
Past dialogues:
"Revelation
is a communication of something which the person to whom
the thing is revealed did not know before. For if I have
done, a thing, or seen it done, it needs no Revelation
to tell me, I have done or seen it done nor enable me to
tell it or write. Revelation therefore cannot be applied
to anything done upon earth, of which man is himself
actor or witness and consequently all the historical
part of the Bible which is almost the whole of it, is
not within the meaning and compass of the word
Revelation and therefore is not the Word of God."
Thomas
Paine.