The Contradiction
Must End
Man is a tiny part of God’s vast universe, yet he goes against its laws, revelling in perverting God’s world instead of trying to preserve and reform it.
As I stood on a mountainside far away from the city, lush green trees spread their branches all around me, and birds chirping rang in my ears. Different kinds of animals could be seen roaming here and there. This scene strangely moved me. How great and perfect that God must be, I thought, who made such a vast and beautiful world and then made everything and every living creature in it function strictly according to His laws!
How beautiful and innocent is this world! Here the birds sing only those tunes which their master has taught them; the cat and the goat eat only those foods which nature has appointed for them at birth; the trees sprout and grow precisely according to the way ordained by the Almighty ever since the world came into being; the river follows the same course laid down for it for all eternity. This universe of God is a perfect collection, and all things in it act, without any deviation, precisely according to the norms set out for them by their Creator.
However, man is in an entirely different category. His lips utter such words as have been forbidden by God. He derives sustenance from things that God has strictly prohibited. He chooses those pathways in life where his Master has posted the sign: “No thoroughfare.” Man is a tiny part of God’s vast universe, yet he goes against its laws, revelling in the perversion of God’s world instead of trying to preserve and reform it.
This amounts to creating a contradiction in God’s non-contradictory world. This is to cause disharmony where there should be nothing but harmony. It is like causing a blemish to appear on a beautiful picture, like introducing imperfection into a perfect world, like allowing Satan to pollute a heavenly atmosphere with his evil.
The power of God and His desire for perfection, which are in evidence everywhere in the universe, refute the supposition that this state of affairs (i.e., the perversion produced by man) will continue. God’s power will certainly not give man the license to perpetrate such a crime indefinitely. It is against God’s sublime conception of beauty and perfection to bear with such conduct.
The coming of the day when this contradiction will end is an absolute certainty. May God’s will be done in this human world as in the rest of the universe.
