I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 5)

Theism believes that God’s commandments can be violated. Such position repudiates the concept of God as almost omniscient and omnipotent because if His laws could be broken, it denotes that He is not nearly all-knowing and all-powerful. More positive than theism, neonaturalism maintains that God is certainly almost omniscient and omnipotent, and His unwritten, self-executory mandates are either positive or negative absolute.

Neonaturalism reason out that when god has designed man to have only two arms, He has impliedly prohibited him to grow wings or more arms,. Such written mandate is an example of negative absolute, and no one can break it.

A man doing acts daily in connection wit is livelihood is complying with the positive absolute law which, if worded for the sake of illustration would say, “Man, in connection with your existence, you’ve got to move.” No man could stay put on fixed place and be alive because he could not violate the positive absolute law.

He who calls the aforementioned examples of God’s self-executory laws as “the law of nature” is a believer in a human god created by religion that calls him “mediator,” with the main function to intercede – an old belief of the ancient primitives of Mesopotamia that cause the constructions of churches and chapels. To say that god is a “mediator” is to deny him as Creator and ruler of the universe because he is divested of his omniscience and omnipotence, reducing him to mere human being assuming the rule as negotiator, like pharaoh, between two conflicting forces. Hence, theism holds self contradictory views.

What are these opposing forces that a theist wishes to imply, forcing him to reduce God a “mediator”? Perhaps, the theist would level his finger at what e calls “nature and man” But man is one of the elements of nature, according to science.

Let us be serious and honest, without any intention to fleece some simple-minded people. It is not nice to ridicule God by calling Him the creator of all things and then divest Him of His near omniscience and omni-potence by saying that He becomes the “mediator” between His two contending creatures. Does theism reduce God to a human being, say, a father negotiating between his two quarreling sons? Such poverty of human concept would only be worthy of respect by a worthless fanatic, somersaulting himself and knocking his head, turning him into a nincompoop.

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