Initial Creation
Oh! Christian preachers,
Why did Jehovah create the primeval man and woman devoid of discrimination? Had they discrimination, why did they eat the forbidden
fruit and fail to know that to refrain from doing forbidden things right and to do them is wrong? Why weren‟t they initially bestowed with the
knowledge of good and evil that they gained after eating the forbidden fruit?
Why did Jehovah plant a useless tree in the Garden of Eden where they were sent to live though they had no discrimination? Suppose a father brings home a pretty looking poisonous fruit, bids his children to stay away from it and in his absence the children get tempted, eat the fruit and fall sick, will you blame the children instead of the father? Similarly, would not the blame for the primeval man and woman turning sinners fall Jehovah instead of the man and woman?
Is Jehovah justified in not killing the man and woman after they ate the fruit forbidden by Him (though on eating the fruit they were to die on the same day)? If it was out of compassion for the man and woman, why didn‟t omniscient Jehovah foresee the events?
If eating forbidden fruit was to give knowledge of good and evil, is it not cheating on the part of Jehovah that He did not want them to acquire this knowledge? If it is said that it was not so, the tree had no power of bestowing such knowledge and that it was merely a symbol to indicate that abiding by Jehovah‟s commands is good and violating them is evil, this interpretation not being contained in the scripture cannot be accepted. The scripture further says, “After eating the forbidden fruit, their eyes opened”.
Why did Jehovah plant that tree in the Garden of Eden and forbid the man and woman from eating its fruit? If His purport was to make them realize that to obey His commands is good and to disobey them is bad, why did He give this command which was of no use to either Himself or others?
Had God provided them with discrimination at the time of creating them, they would have known that God is the ultimate cause and that it is good to obey Him and bad to violate. The tree of knowledge then becomes redundant. If Jehovah forbade man from eating the fruit of the tree in order to know whether or not the man would obey his command, it would mean He lacked foreknowledge and was, therefore, not omniscient.
If it is argued that Jehovah had given free will to man and man alone is responsible for his mistakes and that Jehovah was not to be blamed, it is not acceptable. For, if a father allows freedom to his innocent children and the children commit grave mistakes, who is to blame, the children or the father? Is He justified in giving freedom to persons devoid of discrimination? Can Satan have power to beguile and to bring to harm the man whom Jehovah created in His own image? If Jehovah was absent when Satan tempted the woman, it is evident that Jehovah is not omnipresent. If He was not aware of that Satan was to tempt the woman, it is evident that Jehovah Is not omniscient. If He knew about Satan‟s intention, but failed to prevent the happenings, it is evident that Jehovah is not omnipotent. If He was aware of the happenings and allowed them to take place, it is evident that Jehovah is without compassion.
Can he who, even after seeing his child being attacked by a beast, does not try his best to rescue the child and remains quiet, be called a father? Never! Is it justified to consider Jehovah as father of all beings?
If intention of Jehovah was to punish Satan and redeem the man later, it can be deemed as an eccentric act, since it is unwise to acquire both disease and medicine.
It is said that it was Satan who spoiled man‟s mind. If it is so, there should have been an evil spirit who should have spoiled an angel‟s mind and turned him into Satan. Since there was no such spirit in existence at that time, Jehovah should be the evil spirit who spoiled everyone. Why did Jehovah curse the serpents as a whole while it was Satan who came in the form of serpent and beguiled men? Is it justified that the innocent serpents were victims of the curse whereas the actual culprits, i.e. Satan, the tree of knowledge and Jehovah who created them received no such curse?
While it was only the primeval men who disobeyed Jehovah‟s command, why did He decide to extend the curse on all their descendants? And the LORD was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. He was sorry that He made them – Genesis 6:6, 7.
Having created men of His own accord, why should Jehovah feel sorry about that? His sadness over the degradation of men from pure souls to sinners is understandable. After all, Men only turned into sinners and did not cause any other harm. But, in the case of Satan who was initially an angel created by God, not only did the angel sin and turn himself into Satan but he turned men also into sinners. Thus Jehovah ought to have felt sad about the grave misdeeds of Satan, which he did not, but He chose to worry about men‟s deeds. Why is it so? It can be concluded that if Jehovah could not foresee, at the time of creation, the occurrence of these troubles, He is not omniscient, if He had the foreknowledge of these events, He is devoid of compassion and His later repentance is only pretence.
If one knows the certain events will take place in certain manner, will he not decide a definite course of action to be taken to achieve the end? If so, won‟t everything happen as planned by Jehovah and not go awry? If it goes wrong won‟t it mean that Jehovah is devoid of omniscience and omnipotence? If nothing has gone wrong, it would mean that things happened as per Jehovah‟s design. So, there is no justice at all in attributing all sins to men instead of to Jehovah. There is scriptural evidence that everything was predetermined by God – According as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love – Ephesians 1-4, In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will –
Ephesians 1:11, And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose – Romans 8:28, For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren – Romans 8:29, Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified – Romans 8:30, Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain – Acts 2:23, What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory – Romans 9:22,23, But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth – Thessalonians 2:2:13.
It can be seen from the above that Jehovah had decided that things should occur in a certain manner. It is therefore clear that all ill occurrences
took place just as designed by Jehovah. Therefore, punishing the souls for the sins committed Jehovah is grave injustice.
From the above analysis of „initial creation‟, it is proved that Jehovah doesn‟t have characteristics of God.