Confusion – Part I

It’s interesting, isn’t it? The largest, most influential religion or way of life if you want to call it that, doesn’t demand much of you. Just accept that there is a God. That this God is all powerful, all knowing, and eternal – omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent as the preachers would put it. And that he is your creator.

He gave you freewill so that he could look at you as a companion. But you took advantage of your freewill to go your own way, do your own things. You are born with a fatal flaw thanks to the disobedience of your first father. Now he, God, does want you back. He wants you back quite badly. But you can never match up to his standards. Though he is omnipotent, all powerful, he can’t do much about it. That is, he can’t force you to get on the straight and narrow path, become obedient, and return to his fold. This will go against the freewill policy he himself instituted. Why? Well, if there is no freewill then you can’t be his companion. It would be like talking to a robot. Only two somewhat equal minds can be companions.

Probably, in a way, the first father eating the forbidden fruit resulted in us becoming the enemies of God. But the eating of that fruit also made you more God-like in terms of our ability to know both good and bad. Which probably is good. Why? Cause, now we can really exercise our freewill in terms of whether we want to be his companion or not? Now when we go to him it’s not just because he is God but because it pleases us. It makes us feel good. It makes us feel complete. Just like two lovers.

But why would we go to him? Why do we even need to go to him? Well, blame it on the creation process itself. That breath of life. You have been encoded with a need to have a more fruitful life. Irrespective of race, creed, sex, religious affiliation, age, et al all of us seem to have this innate need to lead a fuller life. We do plenty of things to feel we are leading a more fulfilling life. We strive for success, we strive for great relationships, we party, we work, we slog, we compete, we try to make more money than the next guy, we do drugs to kill this urge, we drink, we do yoga, we seek out spiritual gurus, we meditate, we kill in the name of religion, the list goes on. Why? Because deep within us there is this emptiness, and then there is this constant urge to fill that emptiness with something.

Well, why does God care? He can create another, more compliant race, start all over again. He is eternal. He has all the time in the world. So why does he care about a few measly, good for nothings who think they are in control but can't stop a hair on their head from falling?


To be continued…

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