Understanding God’s Role In The World Drama Clearly
All those who accept the reality of God believe that He is all powerful. It is believed He can do anything and everything, that He is some sort of invisible magician who first of all created this vast universe from nothing, and continues to manipulate its workings whenever He chooses. It is thought that all that has been, is and will be is created and controlled by God. Some go so far as to say that the total cosmos is the mind of God. This has been a constant point of dispute.
Firstly, there are three distinct and eternal entities, each having its own powers and functions. There is God, there are souls and there is matter, or nature, together producing the scenes of creation.
Secondly, there are two fields of existence: the physical and the metaphysical. Both fields act, react and interact to produce this incredible, universal drama of which we are all a part, including God. Fundamentally, on the physical level there is the interaction between souls and matter which produces all phenomena. On the metaphysical level there is the interaction between souls and God, the remembering and forgetting of Him, which gives the interesting plots and by-plots to the movement of events that we call world history.
Thirdly, ‘eternal’ (mentioned above) means that God neither created Himself, nor human souls, nor matter. When we deeply understand the law of ‘karma’ or the law cause and effect which in short means that every soul has to be bear the fruit for each action committed by it (whether good or bad), we can see the impossibility of God being the literal physical Creator of this world and human beings.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris
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