Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
entire universe ; but this is absurd, since he can only be all hands* and nothing else on this hypothesis. Neither is the dignity of a God enhanced or made manifest by his keeping his hands constantly for the full period of embryonic growth, in such unholyt places as some of the wombs-in such cases at least where the female does not resent the visit of the male after conception-must necessarily be. The other alternative is equally untenable, since there is no connection of cause and effect between the word of God and the making of an organism.
Furthermore, if an outside agency were to create the body, it would not be an organism but a manufactured article ; for its making would proceed from periphery to centre. Hence, it is impossible for God himself to make an organism unless from within, in which case he would have to become the ‘soul' of the creature itself; but that would be fatal to the position taken up by Deistic theology.
Further reflection enables us to perceive that the creation of the physical organism can be ascribed to the agency of a God only in one of the two following ways: either he starts with the soul as a centre and then plasters it over with matter, or makes the body, in the first instance, in the same way as a man makes a house, and puts in the soul to inbabit it. But in either case
* According to more advanced theologians God has no hands at all.
This argument also disposes of the untenable notion that God's agency is needed for the doing of all that is done under the sun. We then have God not only growing grass, germinating seeds, and mandfacturing milk in the mammaries of the female, but also making such unsightly, althy things as pus, saliva, urine and fæces in the human and animal organisms! But this is too ridiculous to be entertained.