Jehovah's "Failure"
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We humans never seem to consider God in terms of anything but Power and Ability. The idea of 'failure' is preposterous.
Or, is it?
If we take our notions of Jehovah in terms of PURPOSE, even the most devout pilgrim must acknowledge --at least for now--such PURPOSE has not come to pass.
"Oh, but it will!"
Okay, if you say it enough times. Sure.
The Apostles and disciples ended their fervent prayers with, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus."
And we're still waiting.
JW's who jury-rigged Jesus' 'arrival' back in 1914 are forced to split such an invisible notion into two halves! Their Jesus has been busy all these years GUIDING the Governing Body in circles.
Such a great guide! What a marvellous plan. Hooray.
Be that as it may...
I would reduce the problem of J-God's failures into one compound thought and I'll share it with you for your autopsy.
Here it is:
J-God's failure stems from having created INFERIOR creatures (making them less than divine) and holding them to perfect standards. Humans are inferior to Angels. Angels are inferior to God. (We'll side-step the whole Michael/the Word/Trinity argument).
Holding a legless person to height standards is unthinkable. How does Jehovah differ? Not at all.
JW theology builds an argument forever crumbling under poor design.
Concocting a Legal Contract with Israel and attaching a malediction to failure to uphold a perfect law guaranteed centuries of persecution and hounding. The Jews (like Jehovah's Witnesses) buy-in to a special relationship and status and end up ruinously disappointed--all the while--covering up for it. (Not admitting God's failure.)
The Apostle Paul (more or less the founder of Christianity as a theological reasoning process) lamented he was torn between what he wished to do and what his human nature demanded instead.
It's like a stone wishing to float like a balloon!
Conflict of nature is a very silly notion and I'll tell you why.
IF...(I say "IF") we are designed and manufactured by a Divine being such as Jehovah, then we can't escape His design flaws.
Dogs chase cars. It is their nature. Sure, you can punish the dog--but why not create him differently? (If you're God, of course.)
The scenario mainstream Christianity suggests consists of DYING and being re-engineered into something ELSE entirely.
Doesn't that REALLY mean--"Oops, let me start over and try again with these humans and angels and the whole damned architecture?"
Well, it does to me!
Christianity is a 'back-to-the-drawing-board situation contrived to look like a DIVINE PLAN of the ages.
God's failure (I repeat) stems solely from creating creatures INFERIOR to Himself and demanding they adhere to a SUPERIOR standard wholly against the very nature He imposed.
The Ad Hoc explanation of the serpent, Garden, Sin is no better than a Rudyard Kipling "Just So" story.
God manufactured a chair. The first time anybody sat in it--it crumbled. Let's blame the sitter?
Bah, Humbug.
Build a better chair and it won't crumble!
VICTIMS BLAME THEMSELVES!
Accepting some built-in 'sin' from ancestors is a 'blame-yourself' victim argument.
Surely we can't blame God?
GOD FAILED and took humanity down with His error.
JESUS FAILED and there are forty thousand denominations eager to make slightly different arguments as to why it only appears to be failure IF you come to their church and believe their proprietary nonsense.
Whichever "God" humans think up--they still die hoping that self-same deity has been appeased by ritual and virtuous hijinks.
Notice, if you will, this is not an Atheist argument at all.
I'm granting an implied "swallow the gnat with the camel" presupposition.
I just toss this out as an observation on my part.
It isn't clever. It isn't argumentative.
Think of me as just a man looking at a gorgeous old building with collapsed walls while reading a plaque which says, "The most perfect structure by the finest architect which endures forever."
What is APOLOGIA?
It consists of talking people out of plain sense by contrived arguments.
It's considered an act of Faith.
Been there. Done that. Thanks, but No Thanks.
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