The first question I would ask him is: God why did you create anything at all? Others include: God, if you were really all-knowing and all-powerful, why did it take you billions of years of trial and error just to evolve life on earth, and why should a world created by you be filled with egregious flaws as if it was produced by an apprentice learning on the job?

Why did you single out an insignificant planet (earth) for preferential treatment out of the astronomical number of planets that you allegedly created? Why did you create the earth specially for human beings (according to scripture) and yet filled it with deadly viruses and bacteria to terrorise them? Why did you give humans free will when you, as an omniscient being, already knew they will abuse it?

Why are you indifferent to human suffering although you have the power to bring it to an end? Why are you tribalistic? Why did you choose Israel or any other ethnic nationality as your favourite if you really created all human beings? Why did you permit the totally unnecessary and nauseating rigmarole of Jesus dying on the cross to redeem humankind when you simply could have forgiven people for their sins and allowed the matter to end there?

Must the so-called original sin purportedly committed by Adam and Eve affect every other human being? Does it make sense for a loving father like you to create a very boring place called heaven and a most hideous and terrible place, hell, where people will be tortured forever? Do you derive pleasure in seeing people suffer without end?

Why are you indifferent to the plight of Nigerians? God, why can’t you afflict corrupt Nigerian leaders, both past and present, and their collaborators, with the worst incurable diseases on earth to ensure they did not benefit from their wickedness and reinforce the futility of corrupt enrichment and primitive accumulation?

Why are you silent while pastors and imams are shamelessly deceiving and stealing from gullible Nigerians in your name? Are you happy with the cash-and-carry religiosity dominating Nigeria right now? Why are good people suffering so much whereas the wicked ones are enjoying in this world? If you are perfect, why are people born with serious congenital abnormalities?

On a personal note, why did you make me an albino when you know that I will live in the tropics where human skin needs a lot of melanin for protection from the sun’s harmful ultra violet radiation? To even worsen matters, you chose as my place of origin a backward country dominated by cruel ignoramuses who stigmatise and mistreat albinos just because they look different – how come?

Why wasn’t I born in Iceland or other places where the colour differential between albinos and others is small and where the sun is very mild? Indeed why even create albinos in the first place – is it because you ran out of melanin and just wasn’t patient enough to make more?

God, whatever you are, I have so many questions for you, but the limitations of space cannot allow me to ask all of them in this essay. Meanwhile religious bigots should stop making silly excuses for God, because assuming that indeed God actually created the universe and all it contains, the truth is that, given the serious imperfections in the universe (and in the earth particularly), the universe is certainly not the product of a perfect omnipotent being. That is why I sometimes sympathise with the suffering God of process philosophy postulated by Alfred North Whitehead.

Believers might respond to my questions by quoting the scripture which declares that “the ways of God are not the ways of man”. Well, that is the whole point of this essay: if the ways of the almighty are so different from ours, how can we be sure that he has all the attributes traditionally ascribed to him? How can we really be sure that he even exists?


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/interrogating-god/

I so much admire this great Phillosopher (Lecturer)
Dr. Douglas Anele.
I hope to recieve some lectures from his phillosophical-views, when i begin my Programme in Unilag.
O.p, thanks

God is not on nairaland so dont expect answer

WHAT IS THE AUTHENTIC RELIGION AND WHY SHOULD ONE FIND IT AND HOLD ON TO IT?

Most of us are born into one religion or the other (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism e.t.c) and we all believe that they are the authentic way because they are old and rich in teachings, tradition and history. Some of us, because it is popular (with millions/billons of followers) and comfortable to our spiritually lazy souls.

But have we really subjected some of the teachings and customs of these religions to thorough scrutiny without prejudice? Are we sure they are all 100% correct and that they can fully help us in our spiritual journey so that we can be acceptable to the ALMIGHTY GOD?

With respect to spiritual knowledge, we must continue to strive, we must not be closed up otherwise we will not be able to receive newer revelations and teachings that can lead us to the AUTHENTIC WAY.

Religion is man’s attempt at Knowing and serving God. But in man’s limitation, he often confuses so many things and so at the end, what we have today as religion to adhere strictly to are nothing but man made effort full of errors and dogmas. They also contain many Truths but most times, these Truths are played down and emphasis is placed on the dogmas and culture that are not really relevant for spiritual salvation.

Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Buddha etc, never founded any of the religion ascribed to each one of them. They simply came to the earth to proclaim a teaching that will be of benefit to mankind as sent by God. But the moment they leave the earth, mankind will take hold of their Good name and teachings and turn it to a religion. They will set up a special class of people to propagate this and sometime even to enforce it on people.

hey will add myths, traditions and laws cooked up from their head and claim it to be from God. They will talk about God in such a way that if you are a very intelligent person, you will rather want to be an Atheist. Their faulty brain’s teaching often time present God as un-wise, partial and wicked. Yet, God is nothing of such! He is All Wise, Just and omnipotent!

It is in the light of all these errors and corruption of the soul that God in His Love decided to send a NEW MESSAGE (REVELATION) called “In the light of Truth, The Grail Message” to correct all these errors and to show mankind the right way to follow.

The bringer of this final Message has the same origin as Jesus so He is ably qualified to bear the Message of Truth ( In the light of Truth, The Grail Message) and to mediate it to mankind. Because the time is short before a major change will happen on earth, it is not necessary to dwell on the personality of the bringer of the Message. Instead, we need to concentrate on the Message He brought. We should examine it objectively and compare it with what we have known before.

If you are spiritually pure, you will find answers to all spiritual questions in the Grail Message. You will also be counted among the special ones who will soon play important role on this earth after all evil doers, false teachers and false earthly systems have been destroyed by the power of God in the final Judgment now approaching.

It will then be too late for those who think or teach that …

• Man has God in him (man is spiritual while God is Divine, they are as different as water and petrol, it is a wrong teaching!)


• Man can worship God in objects (idol worship in places like India, Nigeria etc is a big sin and an abomination to God. Can you use stick to represent your own beloved father? How come you then do this for THE ALMIGHTY GOD!, some churches are not left out in this folly!)

• Man can re-incarnate as e.g cow if he behaves badly in this life ( man specie is different from animal specie so that is not possible. But re-incarnation is a fact of life and it is the only concept that explains the causes of variation of human circumstances on earth)

• Jesus was sent to die for our sin ( God would have allowed Herod to kill Him at infancy if it the blood that will wash away peoples' sin. Besides, if a people offend their god, is it the god that carryout sacrifice to the people or it is the other way around? Did God Almighty not command that "Thou Shall not Kill?" Why did Jesus asked His Father to forgive mankind for "they knew not what they are doing" after committing such a terrible crime against Him, the Son (Part) of God on earth!), was the earthquake and the tearing of the temple curtain into two as a sign of protest by nature a film trick by a comical 'God'? what sort of mankind is this! People would quote what they don't understand in the Bible to explain an action that is obviously a great sin against the Son of God. Well the Judgment will pay these in their own coins! if they do not realize this error on time and beg for forgiveness!)

• Man will ultimately be pure after billions of years in his wandering and then, he will merge with God ( man has a time limit for spiritual development and his time is almost up! If he fails this time around before the climax of the final Judgement, he will be swept off earth (horrible death) and in hell, he will go thru the greatest of pains for wasting the opportunities and helps granted to him. He will go thru this until he reverts back to a lifeless spiritual seed that he was billions of years ago)

. . . And so many errors

Examine the work, In the Light of Truth, The Grail Message like a student studying a new field entirely. Assume you know nothing, be open and be comparing all that you are learning with what you have been taught before. That is how you will use it to correct all errors in your religion.

You will see the description of the working of a Perfect God, His wonderful Creation and how man via the mis-use of his free will caused the problem of today. They are all described in a very clear, logical and pragmatic form and it can be understood if you read it with rapt attention and zero prejudice.

Soon, you will have the joy and conviction of recognition. This will be the greatest accomplishment you can ever attain in life.

You will then know the Truth whose Light will then set you Free from the darkness of false religion.

It is a privilege to be offered this work amongst other billions on earth who will not be fortunate to come across it before the end comes!

Make the best use of it. All you need to know is THERE!

THERE AND THEN, YOU YOURSELF WILL DETERMINE WHICH IS THE AUTHENTIC RELIGION.

PEACE BE UPON YOU.

WHAT IS THE AUTHENTIC RELIGION AND WHY SHOULD ONE FIND IT AND HOLD ON TO IT?

Most of us are born into one religion or the other (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism e.t.c) and we all believe that they are the authentic way because they are old and rich in teachings, tradition and history. Some of us, because it is popular (with millions/billons of followers) and comfortable to our spiritually lazy souls.

But have we really subjected some of the teachings and customs of these religions to thorough scrutiny without prejudice? Are we sure they are all 100% correct and that they can fully help us in our spiritual journey so that we can be acceptable to the ALMIGHTY GOD?

With respect to spiritual knowledge, we must continue to strive, we must not be closed up otherwise we will not be able to receive newer revelations and teachings that can lead us to the AUTHENTIC WAY.

Religion is man’s attempt at Knowing and serving God. But in man’s limitation, he often confuses so many things and so at the end, what we have today as religion to adhere strictly to are nothing but man made effort full of errors and dogmas. They also contain many Truths but most times, these Truths are played down and emphasis is placed on the dogmas and culture that are not really relevant for spiritual salvation.

Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Buddha etc, never founded any of the religion ascribed to each one of them. They simply came to the earth to proclaim a teaching that will be of benefit to mankind as sent by God. But the moment they leave the earth, mankind will take hold of their Good name and teachings and turn it to a religion. They will set up a special class of people to propagate this and sometime even to enforce it on people.

They will add myths, traditions and laws cooked up from their head and claim it to be from God. They will talk about God in such a way that if you are a very intelligent person, you will rather want to be an Atheist. Their faulty brain’s teaching often time present God as un-wise, partial and wicked. Yet, God is nothing of such! He is All Wise, Just and omnipotent!

It is in the light of all these errors and corruption of the soul that God in His Love decided to send a NEW MESSAGE (REVELATION) called “In the light of Truth, The Grail Message” to correct all these errors and to show mankind the right way to follow.

The bringer of this final Message has the same origin as Jesus so He is ably qualified to bear the Message of Truth ( In the light of Truth, The Grail Message) and to mediate it to mankind. Because the time is short before a major change will happen on earth, it is not necessary to dwell on the personality of the bringer of the Message. Instead, we need to concentrate on the Message He brought. We should examine it objectively and compare it with what we have known before.

If you are spiritually pure, you will find answers to all spiritual questions in the Grail Message. You will also be counted among the special ones who will soon play important role on this earth after all evil doers, false teachers and false earthly systems have been destroyed by the power of God in the final Judgment now approaching.

It will then be too late for those who think or teach that …

• Man has God in him (man is spiritual while God is Divine, they are as different as water and petrol, it is a wrong teaching!)


• Man can worship God in objects (idol worship in places like India, Nigeria etc is a big sin and an abomination to God. Can you use stick to represent your own beloved father? How come you then do this for THE ALMIGHTY GOD!, some churches are not left out in this folly!)

• Man can re-incarnate as e.g cow if he behaves badly in this life ( man specie is different from animal specie so that is not possible. But re-incarnation is a fact of life and it is the only concept that explains the causes of variation of human circumstances on earth)

• Jesus was sent to die for our sin ( God would have allowed Herod to kill Him at infancy if it is the blood that will wash away peoples' sin. Besides, if a people offend their god, is it the god that carryout sacrifice to the people or it is the other way around? Did God Almighty not command that "Thou Shall not Kill?" Why did Jesus asked His Father to forgive mankind for "they knew not what they are doing" after committing such a terrible crime against Him, the Son (Part) of God on earth!, was the earthquake and the tearing of the temple curtain into two as a sign of protest by nature a film trick by a comical 'God'? what sort of mankind is this! People would quote what they don't understand in the Bible to explain an action that is obviously a great sin against the Son of God. Well the Judgment will pay these in their own coins! if they do not realize this error on time and beg for forgiveness!)

• Man will ultimately be pure after billions of years in his wandering and then, he will merge with God ( man has a time limit for spiritual development and his time is almost up! If he fails this time around before the climax of the final Judgement, he will be swept off earth (horrible death) and in hell, he will go thru the greatest of pains for wasting the opportunities and helps granted to him. He will go thru this until he reverts back to a lifeless spiritual seed that he was billions of years ago)

. . . And so many errors

Examine the work, In the Light of Truth, The Grail Message like a student studying a new field entirely. Assume you know nothing, be open and be comparing all that you are learning with what you have been taught before. That is how you will use it to correct all errors in your religion.

You will see the description of the working of a Perfect God, His wonderful Creation and how man via the mis-use of his free will caused the problem of today. They are all described in a very clear, logical and pragmatic form and it can be understood if you read it with rapt attention and zero prejudice.

Soon, you will have the joy and conviction of recognition. This will be the greatest accomplishment you can ever attain in life.

You will then know the Truth whose Light will then set you Free from the darkness of false religion.

It is a privilege to be offered this work amongst other billions on earth who will not be fortunate to come across it before the end comes!

Make the best use of it. All you need to know is THERE!

THERE AND THEN, YOU YOURSELF WILL DETERMINE WHICH IS THE AUTHENTIC RELIGION.

PEACE BE UPON YOU.