Dear Readers,
I think this will be a fun post today. This post is not addressing ideas like Mormons are "godmakers" or anything like that. However, this post is addressing the idea that man created God. Let us begin by imagining that we are creating a perfect God.
So, if there is a God, what would He need to be? He would need to be perfect (
Matthew 5:48). He must have the basic all powerfuls: Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient. Thus we have a God that must be all powerful (
Matthew 19:26) Check!, is everywhere at once (
Psalms 139:7-12) Check!, and knows everything (
Isaiah 46:10) Check!.
If He is all powerful, and is God, or creator of everything (
Colossians 1:16), then He has to have a reason for creating everything (
Mosses 1:33). Not to mention He had to exist before everything (
Colossians 1:17,
John 1:1-3) Thus He must have a Master Plan. That plan must include our planet, our lives and all of the life around us.
However, this is OUR God, so He must have created us in His image, which would make Him a human in form (
Genesis 1:26-27). If He created us and we look like Him, then we must be His children (
Romans 8:16), which would mean that He is our Father and has a body (
Doctrine and Covenants 130:22). But, if He has a physical body, then He cannot be omnipresent. Thus He must have more than just a body, lets call that the Spirit of God. This allows Him or at least His presence to be everywhere at once (
Doctrine and Covenants 130:22).
If He is everywhere, then He must be within us, and what kind of being would we want within us? We want to feel love, so this Being must have love. "...God is love..." (
1 John 4:16) Check!
So, If God is love then He must be kind and considerate, but how do we know, how does God speak to us? Well, maybe some people are lucky enough to see Him face to face (
Exodus 33:11), but most of us don't see God. Maybe the Spirit of God talks to us. This would be revelation because God is revealing it to us. He has all knowledge, so He could literally tell us anything we wanted to know (
James 1:5).
When God talks to us, what does He say? It is probably things having to do with His Master Plan. If He is also love, then He wants the best for us (
Matthew 7:7-11). Thus this plan must be for our happiness. But we are not always happy, why? Because we have the freedom to choose, we all want to be free and we don't want a God who would take that away from us. Which means, if we are making choices that either bring us happiness or misery then there is opposition. If there is a God of love, there must be a source of hate, this is Satan. (
2 Nephi 2:27)
If there are choices we make for good or for bad, then there must be some kind of law that says which is which. If there is a law, there must be consequences. Thus, some of what God reveals are His laws for our happiness. Is happiness our only motivation for living these laws? There must be a better reward than that! How about after we die? Maybe there is an after life in which we receive a wonderful reward. However, laws have consequences when not obeyed. Thus in this after life, there might be a horrible reward as well. Lets call these heaven and hell or paradise and prison.
Okay, so God has these laws that we must obey to have heaven after this life. However, we all break these laws, and miss the mark, or sin. If we broke the law then we must have hell... but isn't God love, why would He send every one of us His children to hell... so He must be merciful! Notwithstanding His love and mercy, if He forgives all of us for breaking the law, then no one would go to hell, and the purpose of the law would not work. There would be no justice for the law (
Alma 42:25). We all want a just God who judges us perfectly, but if He does, then He cannot be merciful.... Hmmm... quite a predicament. (
Alma 42:21-22)
Maybe one of these laws is a requirement for mercy, lets call that the law of repentance, but how would that law work? There would need to be a Mediator, someone who is able to pay the price or consequences to justice, so that justice is appeased, and then offers that mercy. So this would be another part of God, an individual pleading to God on our behalf (
Doctrine and Covenants 45:3-5).
However, this other Individual must know perfectly what we have gone through, so maybe the Spirit of God could be this Mediator for us? It is inside of us and thus could judge whether or not we are truly repentant. Though, how would it pay the price for sin? No, this Mediator must be a being with a body who also knows what we have gone through. Maybe the Spirit of God is with Him too! Yet, this Individual has to be perfect, not having sinned at all, otherwise it is like someone condemned to death saying, "Hey, I will vouch for that man (or woman), he (or she) is just like me!". Thus, this Mediator must not have to pay for His or Her own sins because they didn't have any. This would enable Them to properly plead our case.
Who among us sinful mortals could qualify for this perfection? That Mediator would need to be super-human. Maybe the Mediator is a physical Child of God. Yet, if the Mediator was pure God, then He too would have to have that strict justice. Thus the Mediator would need to be something in between. Half God and half mortal. A Demi-God. This would enable the Mediator to live in mortality and pay every price for sin having felt it perfectly through the Spirit of God within all of us while escaping the penalties for Himself.
Thus, justice can be satisfied, mercy can be extended, our mortal lives have reason and purpose, and we can have eternal life in the after life. However, this would mean that God is three beings: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Because, if any one of these three is taken away, then God would cease to be God. Yet, they are also three individual beings, One the Supreme Creator, One the Mediator, and One the being that is everywhere connecting the first two. Yet still, they are One Perfect Ideal God.
Now that we have talked about how and why humans could imagine themselves a perfect God as we know Him to be in the Christian world. Does this shake my faith at all? No. Nor should it you. For, at least in the LDS church, we find that the very first counsel in heaven, in our premortal life, was between God the Father, Jehovah (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. They counseled together to make a Plan of Salvation for all of us. They made sure it met every possible criteria of perfection and of Godhood. Then they presented this plan to us in the Grand Council. This is when we sustained Jehovah (Jesus) as our Savior and Redeemer. This is also when Lucifer rebelled, trying to take Jehovah's position and even The Father's authority unto himself. Surprisingly, 1/3 of all of the spirit children of God like Lucifer's plan and followed him. Lucifer was cast out and became Satan, that opposition to God.
Thus, by reason we can understand why God is who He is, because by perfect reason He became our God.
As a side note, I do not believe Lucifer becoming Satan was part of God's plan that was presented. Of course, knowing all things, He knew it would happen, but that was not part of the perfect plan. I believe that in God's perfect plan, the appetites and carnality of our bodies was enough opposition for us to experience. Yet, because Satan and his angels are also tempting us, I believe that Christ's mercy is that much more extended towards us, because He understands Satan's temptations (
Matthew 4:1-11).
I hope that you enjoyed this post. Feel free to leave any comments.
Love,
Jacobugoth
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