07-07-2020, 10:56 AM
My take: if there is a God, then He can choose to be whatever best suits His Purpose at the time, as when judging souls. He even has freedom of worship...
I can imagine Nazis in despair when discovering that God is Jewish. I can imagine the despair that someone who participated in the deadly bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, that God is African-America. Or that Osama bin Laden felt when he found that God is American. If you were one of Milosevich's butchers, then God is Allah and Muhammad is his greatest prophet.
Do egregious sin such as oppressing the poor (a very common crime among the rich and powerful in America and elsewhere), then you may find that God is not on your side.
I can imagine Nazis in despair when discovering that God is Jewish. I can imagine the despair that someone who participated in the deadly bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, that God is African-America. Or that Osama bin Laden felt when he found that God is American. If you were one of Milosevich's butchers, then God is Allah and Muhammad is his greatest prophet.
Do egregious sin such as oppressing the poor (a very common crime among the rich and powerful in America and elsewhere), then you may find that God is not on your side.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.