The Wrath of God:


Man is, unhappily, possessed of a highly developed faculty for blaming everyone and everything other than himself for whatever happens to or around him. He can justify his every error, foolishness, vanity and perversity, and he can rationalize his every shortcoming, injustice, inadequacy, and brutality by blaming it on some outside influence over which he had no control and for which he had no resistance. When all else has failed as a defense for his weaknesses and iniquities he will inevitably blame God. Such is the pettiness of humankind and therein lies the essence of his degradation and self-inflicted misery. When humankind describes the misery and suffering that they have wrought upon themselves as the vengeance and wrath of God they are exercising nothing less than manifest hypocrisy and human deception.

A loving mother will forbid her child to place its unprotected hand upon a red-hot burner because she knows the pain and suffering that will result. She tells the child that it will hurt him, that it will injure his hand, and that it may never properly heal. Her warning is a protection to him and the sign of her loving-kindness and concern for his happiness. If the child does not pay heed to her warning, defies her command, and places his hand on the red-hot burner then he will experience the agony of pain and will have severely damaged a member of his body. The mother cannot be blamed for the child’s defiance of her warning any more than she can be blamed for the suffering that resulted from the disobedience. This cannot be called the wrath of the mother or maternal chastisement. Likewise it cannot be called the wrath of God or Divine chastisement when humankind disobeys the commands of God and suffers the agonizing results. God is not vengeful but He is just. He has provided humankind with the protection of His Word as a sign of His Loving-Kindness and has endowed him with the capacity to distinguish truth from error as a sign of His infinite Mercy and Justice. God has never left humankind comfortless nor has He ever withheld the Wisdom of His Counsel. Humankind’s rejection of His Counsel, defiance of His Commands, disobedience against His Teachings, violation of His Principles, and persecution of His Messengers has invariably resulted in immeasurable pain, suffering, and abject misery.
Humankind, if it be true to that which it professes to believe must, of necessity, also recognize, embrace, and attest to the logical consequences of each and every one of those beliefs and must, if it be true to the integrity of those beliefs, act and be the living example by which the truth of those beliefs can be vindicated. Each belief leads irresistibly to its logical consequence and each logical consequence leads irresistibly to another belief. To profess to believe in one while at the same time denying its logical consequence is to engage in blind imitation and to become a puppet for the myths and superstitions that abound throughout society.
Belief is not only spiritual but must also be logical and must not fly in the face of reason and common sense. An illustration of this is as follows;

To believe in God is to believe in the eternal, imperishable, and unalterable nature of the soul.
To believe in the immortality of the soul is to believe in the survival of the soul after death.
To believe in the survival of the soul is to believe in the existence of another life in another world.
To believe that life does not begin and end in this world is to believe that there are joys, rewards, bounties, and treasures in the next world that are eternal and imperishable.
To believe that the joys and rewards of the next world are eternal and imperishable is to believe that the transitory and perishable joys and rewards of this world, by comparison, are insignificant and only worthy of a modicum of pursuit.
To believe that the joys and rewards of this world are only worthy of a modicum of pursuit is to believe that only the treasures of the next world are worthy of the focus of our pursuit.
To believe that only the treasures of the next world are worthy of pursuit is to believe that the qualities necessary to acquire them have been deposited in the human soul.
To believe that theses qualities have been deposited in the human soul is to believe that each and every soul has the capacity to unfold them.
To believe that the soul has the capacity to unfold these God-given attributes is to believe that they are the hidden essence of humankind.
To believe that these attributes are the hidden essence of humankind is to believe that their unfoldment will reveal the true knowledge of humankind.
To believe that these unfolded qualities will reveal the true knowledge of humankind is to believe that humankind is ignorant and handicapped without their unfoldment.
To believe that God is a Spirit and not a physical being is to believe that humankind can only reflect the spiritual attributes of God.
To believe that humankind can reflect the spiritual attributes of God is to believe that these attributes have been deposited in the human soul.
To believe that these spiritual attributes have been deposited in the human soul is to believe that they are the hidden essence of humankind.
To believe that these spiritual attributes are the hidden essence of humankind is to believe that they are the means by which humankind is in the ‘Image and Likeness’ of god.
To believe that humankind is ignorant and handicapped without their unfolding is to believe that humankind is ignorant and handicapped unless he is reflecting the spiritual attributes of God.
To believe that humankind is ignorant and handicapped unless he is reflecting the spiritual attributes of God is to believe that the unfolding of these attributes will lead to the discovery of the true knowledge of humankind.
To believe that the unfolding of these attributes will lead to a true knowledge of humankind is to believe that the hidden essence of humankind, the spiritual attributes of God, the ‘Image and Likeness’ of God, and the true knowledge of humankind are all one and the same.
To believe that they are all one and the same is to believe that the exaltation and progress of humankind rests solely in their achievement.
To believe that the exaltation and progress of humankind lies solely in their achievement is to believe that the degradation and regression of humankind lies in their abandonment.
To believe that the degradation and regression of humankind lies in his refusal to reflect the attributes of God is to believe that God has given humankind the freedom to, on the one hand, choose either to gratify its greeds, passions, and desires or, on the other hand, to comply with the Teachings, Principles, and Commandments that He has sent to them through His Messengers.
To believe that God is Just is to believe that He has provided humankind with the Protection of His Word so that humankind can avoid unnecessary pain, suffering, and abject misery.
To believe that the Word of God is a Protection against pain, suffering, and abject misery is to believe that defiance and rejection of His Word will lead to pain, suffering , and abject misery.
To believe that that defiance of God’s Word will lead to pain, suffering, and abject misery is to believe that this suffering is a result of humankind’s defiance and disregard and is not, therefore, a demonstration of God’s wrath or vengeance.
By the Wrath of God is meant the defiance, betrayal, and disregard of those spiritual and physical laws that are inherent in His universe, are self-regulating, and which do not require His personal intervention in order to assure that both the soul of humankind and His physical universe arrive at their pre-determined destiny.