Herein we continue considering the UK’s Church And State’s 6 Things Religion Can’t Explain by Dean Van Drasek, February 5, 2015 AD—see the whole series here.
5. Why make human souls eternal?
Clearly, Church And State’s Dean Van Drasek could not really think of a full “6 Things Religion Can’t Explain” which is why he keeps recycling questions over and over as sub-questions with the main six.
As with each segment, he asks questions within questions, merely asserts that “Religion Can’t Explain” and then tell us that which he subjectively imagines as his own answers.
He writes, “If you’re divine and eternal and all powerful, why do you need to make anything else eternal? What would be the reason?” Note that he does not tell us why it is any sort of problem for God to be eternal and create anything else that is eternal so this is a non-issue. However, it does bring us to two manners whereby to define “eternal”: 1) having always existed in the past, present and future and 2) coming into existence at a certain point in time and continuing forever thereafter.
Darsek notes that “Most human religions have had gods with families and friends who are also divine. The heavenly court” includes “jealousies and affairs and sensualities,” etc. “But other religions strip their god(s) of these terrestrial emotions, etc.”
Finally, he simply jumps to asking “why create something like this?” like a soul “Especially if most of them are destined for eternal punishment?” We have dealt with this general topic in previous segments thus, here I will simply state that it pertains to God sharing His eternally and ontologically eternal nature.
He then asks “If you’re a lonely divine being, you create angels” yet, as we have seen in previous segments God has eternally enjoyed relationships within the Triune Godhead and thus, is never lonely.
Then he makes another baseless emotive assertion in noting that “Buddhist/Hindu Angels are soooo much better than the boring sword wielding, plague distributing angels of the monotheisms” and yet, he does not tell us why nor upon what basis he judges between them.
Darsek then merely and obviously deteriorated into even more emotive folly by ending by merely shooting off some half-baked questions which not even he—in all his subjective myopic emotive lack of glory—does not bother to answer, “I mean, don’t the angels in all their diversity offer enough entertainment? Why create immortal human souls? If you want to enjoy their exploits and see if they can meet your commandments, just give them 1,000 years of heaven after life. Surely that is still enough of an incentive, or even 10,000 or 100,000 years? Why eternity?”
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