Paul Derengowski, ThM
Pick up any reputable Bible and you will find the following opening comments: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1).
Then, on the sixth day we read, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness’…and God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Gen. 1:26-27).
Hence, God created man; man did not create God.
That simple reality is often disputed, as is evidenced in a recent article by Deepak Chopra, who asked, “Why did we create God?”
Of course, Chopra’s question stems from a Hindu background, where just about anything and everything is a god, which totally avoids biblical revelation and mitigates even what it means to be God.
The door is then opened wide to deny God’s existence, since so many conflicting idols has only led to skepticism and violence in the world.
One can almost hear the eighteenth century, humanist philosopher, David Hume clamoring in the background, “Is God willing to prevent evil but unable to do so? Then he is not omnipotent. Is God able to prevent evil but unwilling to do so? Then he is malevolent (or at least less than perfectly good). If God is both willing and able to prevent evil then why is there evil in the world?”
Except, Chopra does not deny God’s existence outright. Instead, he offers his own equally conflicted, if not ignorant, version of God to the mix and voila! Instant hope and success.
All Chopra does, though, is do the very same thing that he despises in all the other pagan creations of deity, which is to deny God’s personal revelation of Himself, particularly in the person of Jesus Christ.
Chopra ends up creating his own god.
Chopra ignorantly opined, “God is the immeasurable potential as consciousness for all forms of knowing and experience in every living organism. Our everyday reality is an experience in that consciousness. The real God is wholeness, which has no qualities we can speak of, including cherished qualities like mercy and compassion, and yet God is the source of all possible qualities.”
Chopra’s “God,” in other words is impersonal and unknowable, which is not what the God of the Bible revealed about Himself.
The writer of the Hebrew letter, most likely the Apostle Paul, informs us that,
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of his nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; having become much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they (Heb. 1:1-4).
If anyone truly wants to know who God is, all they have to do is pick up the Bible and read it.
It is God’s personal letter to humanity revealing who He is, particularly as He is manifest in the person of Jesus Christ.
Anyone who avoids God’s personal letter is subject to doing what Deepak Chopra has done, which is to enter the realm of contradiction by criticizing the very thing of which he is guilty—creating another idol that contributes to more violence in the world.
But, then again, this would not be the first time Chopra would proffer a contradictory solution that is rooted in ignorance.[wonderplugin_video videotype=”mp4″ mp4=”https://capro.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Deepak-Chopra-Gets-Owned.mp4″ videowidth=600 videoheight=400 keepaspectratio=1 videocss=”position:relative;display:block;background-color:#000;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;” playbutton=”https://capro.info/wp-content/plugins/wonderplugin-videoembed/engine/playvideo-64-64-0.png”]
Chopra’s question includes the un-supported premise that “we created God” – but, of course he is asking “why” we did so in the typical evasive, question-begging manner that is so characteristic of pseudo-intelectuals and pubescent smart asses.
But he goes on to tell us exactly WHAT “God” IS. He tells us that God IS: “the immeasurable potential as consciousness for all forms of knowing and experience in every living organism.”
Since he assumes that “WE” created God, then following his damaged logic we must infer that somehow YOU and I and everyone else (including Chopra) are the ones who created “the immeasurable potential as consciousness for all forms of knowing and experience in every living organism.”
Since I can categorically reject any notion that I personally created any such “potential consciousness for all forms of knowing and experiecne”, and since I am reasonably sure that you and several billion others would reject that as well, we can only conclude that Chopra “thinks” that HE (and possibly those who fall for his double-talk) is THE creator of: “the immeasurable potential as consciousness for all forms of knowing and experience in every living organism.”
That makes HIM and his hapless followers “God”, on his own view.
So going back to his rather silly and irrational question I can only wonder …why is he asking “why ‘WE’ created” HIM…???
I don’t recall creating Mr. Chopra.
Moreover, HE (being God) would have to be sufficiently omniscient to be able to remember creating HIMSELF. I wonder how he did that, since he must have existed BEFORE he created …himself.
This boy is just bloody confused.
Great analysis, Brian. Thank you!