Saturday, January 22, 2011

Whether God is aggressive?

What is the nature of God? Whether She wants to fight back with the devils or allow them to control the earth ? I would like to discuss this issue in the light of  holy books.

First, I would like to talk about Hindu Supreme God, Lord Vishnu. Many Hindu scholars are with the opinions that Lord Vishnu came down on earth at least 9 to 11 times in the shape of human (or other form) to defend mankind from devils. For example, Krishna, Ram and Gautam Budhdha are beleived to be incarnations of Lord Vishnu. In other words, Krishna, Ram and Gautam Buddah are the same Person.

Hinduism beleives in Trinity (three in one or one in three) where Lord Vishnu is the preserver, Lord Shiva is  the destroyer and Lord Brahma is the creator of the universe. In other words, Hindu Supreme God has three personalities, Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, similar to Christianity such as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Through Krishna, Lord Vishnu fought against Kauravas in the Kurushkhetra War to establish righteousness on earth. In the Kurushkhetra War, Krishna orderded Arjuna to kill all his brothers for the sake of righteousness and Arjuna did it. Eventually, Kauravas defeated and Pandavas got back their kingdom. Through the war of Kurushkhetra, mankind was restored and devils were destroyed. In this case, we see God has taken aggresive role for restoring  mankind and righteousness.

Indeed, Holy Gita was revealed to Arjuna by Krishna in the midst of Kurushkhetra war.

Through Ram, Lord Vishnu destroyed Ravana and his son Indrajit, Kumbhokorna, brother of Ravana to establish righteousness on this land. Here we see God is also merciless in the question of  perishing devils.

The story is different in case of Gautam Buddah. Gautam Buddah is beleived to be one of the incarnations of Lord Vishnu. But we never saw Gautam Buddah to engage in battle, rather He taught people to ran away from war and struggle to attain Nirvana, a state of mind where you will be able to break the Cycle of Rebirth . So the role of God as well as the teaching of God is different  in case of Gautam Buddah  from Krishna and Ram.

If we look into Islam, Islam does not beleive in incarnation (God Herself comes down on earth in the shape of human to preach religion). God sent prophets as Her messengers to speak Her words and Her existence. Noah, Moses, Jesus (Prophet Isa), John (Prophet Yahya) and Mohammad are the prominent prophets among thousands.

God directly helped prophet Moses to destroy Faraoh's army in the Nile River. God also encouraged Prophet Mohammad to engage in war to defend Islam as a result there were 27 wars (small and large).

In case of Noah, God destroyed the non-beleivers by a flood.

So we see God is aggresive in case of Noah, Moses and Mohammad for establishing truth.

But we see the same God is behaving quite differently in case of Jesus (Prophet Isa). God did not fight back against Romans and Jewes who tortured Jesus. Instead Jesus was exhaulted to heaven directly (Christians beleive that Jesus was crucified by the Romans and Jewes while Islam says Jesus was exhaulted to heaven directly just before the crucifixation attempt by the Roman Governor Pilat). As a result, Roman and Jewes successfully fulfilled their desire. Devils survived while mankind was at stake.

In the past, many prophets were killed by the devils and God allowed it to happen. The best example is John (Prophet Yahya), killed by King Herod.

So it has been very difficult to conclude about the nature of God as She is behaving differently from time to time. Whether God is aggresive to defend righteousness or prefers to avoid confrontation or allows devils to rule the earth or something else beyond human imagination?

I am not good at writing English so please read my article with caution.

Today weather in Dallas is chilly and we are cooking for a good launch at home. Today is Saturday so holiday.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's a matter of lengthy discussion. An one liner comment would not be fair to the subject matter.

Kazi Musa