The irony here lies in the fact that the inventors of the myth of human-god so much believed in their invention that they failed to grasp sound reasoning which asserts that God, almost all-knowing and all-powerful, can never be tortured, let alone nailed to the cross. Knowing these evil thoughts of men, true God would suspend His law of motion; and those evil men could not torture Him any more; or God would suspend the life-giving force, divesting from those evil men the ability to move. How could they nail a person on the cross?
As a neonaturalist, I do not succumb to such naïve thinking of attributing my existence to a human god. I recognize real God as my Creator and ruler; and I believe man could do nothing if he has accidentally strayed away from God’s governance. Inasmuch as God is the creator of almost all things, including nature, man’s existence would be reduced to nothing outside God’s control. Without the law of motion, man would lose his appetite for lovemaking; without the law of death, he could not die though he felt useless. In short, man could do nothing – nothing at all outside God’s governance.
As I have said, I am not teaching any religious doctrine. Being a neonaturalist, I am just embracing the truth believed as such by neonaturalism, one of the six different views outside any organized religion such as deism, theism, neonaturalism, agnosticism, pantheism, and atheism.
Of these six viewpoints mentioned, atheism is incurably negative while agnosticism crouches on the gray area and awkwardly stays there, waiting for the sunlight to shine on a clear evidence. Except for atheism the five isms – namely: theism, deism, pantheism, neonaturalism and agnosticism can have the same views elsewhere but contradict each other somewhere.
As an example, deism and theism have the same belief in human god. Theism upholds revelation but deism openly rejects it, declaring further that God has no control over His creatures. Theism has a ticklish position, as though it were resting on a quicksand, because while it believes in God’s omniscience and omnipotence, it implies that God has no control over His creatures.
Pantheism also believes in God but it rejects revelation. On the other and, neonaturalism plunges ahead by recognizing the operations of the unwritten yet self-executory laws which emanate from the self-sustaining central energy called Divine Power, First Cause or God. Like theism, neonaturalism also acknowledges the phenomena manifested through revelation. However, while theism considers revelation as esoteric or is meant for only a “chosen few,” originally claimed by the Jews, noenaturalism advocates that revelation, based on facts, is exoteric or is commu-nicated to the people in general; but most of them are too busy and do not care to interpret or understand it. Making it worse, they let a preacher do the thinking for them.
He who believes in revelation as esoteric can easily be hoodwinked by a glib talker. A neonaturalist does not want to be a witless sucker. He declares, based on facts, that revelation is open to all. When a dead trunk of a tree decays, it is an exoteric revelation of God’s law of change, as pointed out by neonaturalism. Also, when a mare gives birth to a foal, it is a revelation of the unwritten yet self-executory law of propagation. Such law operates without any law enforcer, for God has instilled in his every creature the instinct to automatically comply, when a need arises, with His unwritten law, thereby generating the force of self-execution.
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