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God
(part V)
- Text below is an excerpt from The Spirits'
Book -
(Book First - Causes. Chapter I)
"Not being able to make himself God, man would then make himself out to be, at least, a part of God."
- Those who hold this theory profess to find in it the demonstration of some of the attributes of God. The worlds of the universe being infinitely numerous, God is thus seen to be infinite; vacuum, or nothingness, being nowhere, God is everywhere. God being everywhere, since everything is an integral part of God, he is thus seen to be the intelligent cause of all the phenomena of the universe. What can we oppose to this argument?
"The dictates of reason. Reflect on the assumption in question and you will have no difficulty in detecting its absurdity."
The pantheistic theory makes of God a material being who, though endowed with a supreme intelligence, would only be on a larger scale what we are on a smaller one. But as matter is incessantly undergoing transformation, God, if this theory were true, would have no stability. He would be subject to all the vicissitudes and even to all the needs of humanity. He would lack one of the essential attributes of the Divinity - viz., unchangeableness. The properties of matter cannot be attributed to God without degrading our idea of the divinity and all the subtleties of sophistry fail to solve the problem of his essential nature.
We do not know what God is but we know what he should not be. The theory just stated is in contradiction with his most essential attributes. It confounds the creator with the creation, precisely as if we consider a machine to be an integral portion of the engineer who invented it.
The intelligence
of God is revealed in his works as is that of a painter in his picture,
but the works of God are no more God himself than the picture is the
artist who conceived and painted it.
/// Atheism is contrary to reason
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Unshakable faith is only that which can meet reason face to face in every human epoch. (Allan Kardec)
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