ISLAM AND THE WILL OF GOD

Islam calls for the surrender of our wills to the Will of God. The problem is that, according to my theology and the logical proofs I present in Ercian Testament - Part Two, Erc, the Infinite Source and ultimate God is not one being, not a person (see my blog’s post of 9/02/06 "Islam's Misconceptions").

If Allah is the equivalent of Erc, then Allah is God-Unconscious, an infinite / endless / boundless reality without a mind or a will. There is no Will of God, and there is no Word of God. This truth applies to Islam, and it applies to Judaism, Christianity, or any other religion claiming to be in possession of revelations from God.

As a result, even if we wanted to, we cannot surrender our wills to a God that does not have a mind or a will. However, and this is a big however, there exists the possibility that our Infinite Source and Ultimate God evolved a God that is conscious, a God that possesses a mind and a will. With infinite space-energy and eternal time at Ert disposal, it is possible Erc has the power to make that evolutionary jump a reality. As an Ercian, I call that God Ellael, our personal God and Holy Self.

Now suppose that Islam changes positions and says, “No, we are not saying Allah is the equivalent of Erc, the ultimate God. We are saying Allah is the equivalent of Ellael, a conscious God evolved from God-Unconscious. Therefore, we can claim that Muhammad received revelations from Allah (Ellael), and we can call for the followers of Islam to surrender their wills to the Will of Allah (Ellael).”

Islam can say that. Still, Islam cannot prove Muhammad was the vessel of revelations from Ellael or Allah, whichever name one cares to use. Nevertheless, even if proof were possible, we have to ask ourselves the question,“What makes the word of a conscious God morally infallible?" The answer is “nothing.” In other words, the Ercian position is that any rational being (God, human, or alien) can choose to be good or evil. Besides, any rational being can make mistakes in judgment (see Ercian Testament - Part Two, chapter 16, “Man-God Relationships”). Therefore, we have to examine any instructions that are presented as commands from God to determine whether they are good or bad, moral or immoral, worthy or unworthy of consideration.

Since might does not make right, no God evolved from Erc has the moral right to force us to follow any commandments that go against our best moral judgments. Supposing our technology advances to where we can create rational beings in the laboratory. We would be their creators. We would be to them what I believe Ellael is to us. One more link in the chain of being. It would not give us the right to Lord over them, to ask them to surrender their wills to ours, or anything of the sort.

Yes, we would try to educate them and teach them what we think are good moral rules. We would talk to them about democracy and human rights. We would also teach them our laws and the workings of our justice system. That way, they could understand what we consider good and bad behavior. Living in a democracy, we would finally teach them how they can present grievances, try to change existing laws, and use the vote to elect whom they feel will best represent them in office. That is it. Beyond helping them with our counsel, we should not try to force them follow rules we are not willing to accept ourselves from our personal God.

As I have stated previously in other writings, this idea that God wants our worship, and that we surrender our wills to “His Will” comes from ancient times, from those days when the King would cut one’s head off with or without a cause. A good God should want our love, period. A good God should want us to use the minds Ert* gave us to make our own moral decisions. That should be the Will of a good God. That is the only kind of God to whom I will give my love. Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the rest, I propose you do the same.

*Ert is God's article. I use it instead of "He" or "She." "Ert" is a class-neutral and gender-neutral article. See Ercian Testament - Part Two, chapter 9, "Erc, Ellael, and I."