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[The Lord's Philosophy
the world and destroy at the next what he has created. If it is His nature to create the world why does He destroy it and if destruction is His nature why does He create what he has to destroy? These two are contrary actions therefore they can never be found in the same personality. God is abve all desires therefore it is impossidle that He should have the desire to create the world. Then what forces Him to take up this task? If God is influenced by something else how can He be called God? That which has the power to force Him to act would be called God. God becomes only an instrument in its hands. In this way God's omnipotence itself becomes a matter of serious question.
God is also considered as all-sympathetic. When He is sympathetic and Himself the creator why did He create the different miseries and pains? Where is His sympathy gone when He sees before Him the distress of the parents when He carries away their only hope-their only son-before his time and plunges them in the deepest ocean of pain and sorrow? Does He proclaim His infinite sympathy when He carries away in death the lord of life of a newly married wife even before her charms are fully matured and blossomed? Does He shower His sympathy on man-kind by making the life of a widow a veritable burden to her after the premature death of her only support-her one and only son? Is God really merciful and sympathetic in this way?
In defence it can be said that they get the fruit of their Karmas done before. If they did not commit sin they would never get fruits. What can God do in this case? But this defence also is shattered with a little thought. God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent. When those
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