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Bu bulchdraids. [longe general are found to take to sinful path rather than the righteous one. Could God not have prevented this? It is a blot on His omniscience that He could not foresee this and provide precautionary measures against it. We may credit God with the noble idea of affording opportunity to human beings to exalt themselves; but our first question is why should there have been imperfection at all ? And again why should the path to perfection have been made difficult so that very few men are found to attain it? The answer that God wanted beings to praise Himself is also one to detract from God's perfection. In short, desire of any kind on the part of God implies a longing for making up some deficiency which goes against our idea of Godhood.
Can God be sharirin ( having body ) ? A little thought will convince us that He can not be. The · * real notion of God implies His being without limita
tions; but bodily form necessitates limitations. If He has a body it must be limited by space and other object outside it. This human conception of God is found among men that are on a lower stage of development and that therefore are unable to form abstract conception and true meaning of God. If we analyse the notion from a philosophic point of view we see that the notion of God having a ' physical or ethereal body or having any desires is wholly irrationl. In other words the idea of a personal God does not stand the test of reason.
Similar objection can be urged against God being
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