Would God Create a World Full of Other
Competing Gods?
ROBBY
BERMAN July 2, 2016 Big Think
(blog)
What’s a seeker
of Truth supposed
to do with two
competing facts that
leave as much room for compromise,
Sam Harris says, “as a coin toss?” The New
Testament says Jesus is
the actual, real son
of God,
and anyone who doesn’t believe that will spend eternity
in Hell.
The Koran says Jesus
is not the son
of God,
and anyone who believes he is will spend eternity
in Hell.
(A Buddhist would
consider the whole discussion odd.)
This, all
by itself, is a good reason to wonder how plausible it is that
there’s a God with a capital “G” in the
first place.
Which makes
more sense to you?
Option
A: Different groups of people with a common need to explain
life’s big questions came up with
different religions in response.
Simple.
Option
B: One religion is perfect and right and all the others
are wrong. This is
what most people believe. They decide
to believe one faith or another based on where they’re from, by
“geographical
accident.” What the? Harris notes this requires “a
very sort of strange loving
God who would have created this
circumstance.” Why? Everyone born somewhere else is going to burn forever in Hell.