God is God - God is the Creator and the Law-Giver

By Charles A. Moscowitz

This book is the musings of an aging man who has been overtaken by an intense desire to transmit to the younger generation is views about God. Moscowitz begins the narrative by presenting his evidence that God exists along with his contention that there is no contradiction between belief in God and science. He then proceeds to sketch a history o

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles A. Morse
• Release date: Oct 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087915975

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GOD IS GOD

God is the Creator and the Law-Giver

By Charles Moscowitz

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Foreword

Presumably, you have been obsessed with this question: Does God Really Exist? In this book, I humbly present to you, dear reader, my attempt to demonstrate that God exists. I argue that, as such, God is the creator of the universe and is the source of natural law. I am a secular American Jew who, as an adult, became more involved in Jewish beliefs and practices. My approach to God has been primarily influenced by my culture which I honor, the American culture, which is Christian, secular and pluralistic and my vision of God is, as such, intertwined with my vision of America. This book does not focus on any one particular sectarian understanding of God, as I view such a focus as appropriate to individual preference, but, rather, I contend that we are all equal, regardless of our ethnic or religious background, in terms of our ability to perceive, albeit through a clouded lens, certain universal aspects and elements of God including abstract elements of morality and law that are integral to creation.

I argue that our personal ability to perceive or to know God, a perception that is based, I suggest, on science and logic, is the primary factor that separates us from all other living creatures. We know God due to our ability to know truths, as God is true, and our ability to integrate truths and to reason. God created the universe by defining and separating various elements of existence from himself and, according to the Book of Genesis on the seventh day God paused, observed that which he had created, and he saw that it was good. By our consciousness, by free will, by the power of love, by our ability to reason and to imagine as all of these elements and potentialities were endowed to us by the creator, we are able to step outside the cycle of nature, outside of that which God created, by means of knowing ourselves and of knowing our own minds within the context of our natural limitations. In the process, we glimpse at God to the degree that we, as imperfect images of God, can know God who, as creator, emanates outside the natural world. Our ability as human beings to reason, to name things, to know truths, to know reality, is that which makes every single human life an image of God.

Yet our history, from the time of Adam and Eve until today, is a history of rebellion against God and nature. We deny God, we deny that we are images of God and we rebel against reality itself. We pretend that we are human gods as we strive to replace nature and natures God with perfected utopias on earth. Only God is perfect as God is the ultimate sovereign, yet, in every generation, many of us conspire to usurp the power of God as creator and law-giver. We arrogantly claim that we, as mortal men and women, working alone or conspiring together, can rule the world and can change human nature and reality to reflect our own arbitrary will. The history of our rejection of God stretches from ancient pagan idol worship to modern Nazism and Communism. In the process, we violate nature as well as the natural sovereign rights of our fellow human beings as, at the end of the day, only God is sovereign and only God is One. There is no other god before God.

In this book, I attempt to prove that God exists as the sole and eternal source of all that is true and the creator of morality and, as such, that God is the giver of laws and precepts that are beyond the manipulation of imperfect and biased human beings. As part of this process of proof, we will observe aspects of what is known and identifiable as true in revelation, in nature and in ourselves. We will examine universal truths and principles that are self-evident and, as such, that foster the natural rights of the imperfect individual who lives an imperfect existence in imperfect circumstances. We will acknowledge that accumulated knowledge and experience over our collective history has advanced our lives and our societies toward civilization and that this knowledge has set all of humanity in the spiritual direction of protecting and healing our imperfect lives and our flawed societies from the dark influences and devastating forces that emanate from false ideas and from false gods.

Who am I to write about God?

Really! Who am I to write about God? What kind of arrogance is this? I am no expert and I am certainly no saint. I am no scholar nor am I a man of the cloth. I am a poor schlub, a sinner, a pitiful supercilious twit! As I mince toward the finish line of my life, as I glance back over my shoulder at a past laden with squandered opportunities and wasted time, I realize that I am hardly qualified to write a book about God! I am too tired, too burned out, too wasted. I can barely rouse myself out of bed in the morning let alone rally my energy and attention span long enough to write a book about Almighty God…the King of the Universe!

And…yet…here I go!

I believe in God. I have always believed in God. I pray and I talk to God. Every human being on the face of the earth, every person alive today and every person who has ever lived since the beginning of time, indeed every living creature including the amoeba believes in God. This is because God is true, and we know it. Those of us who claim to believe otherwise are lying to themselves and to everyone else. As Thomas Jefferson observed in the Declaration of Independence, God is self-evident. God created all of us equally, both men and women, and God endowed us with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Our belief in God is, in and of itself, not solely a question of faith, I would argue, but rather our belief in God is also a question of reason and science. Speculation regarding various denominational particulars relating to our belief in God are matters of personal faith and theology such as whether there is a son of God or a Trinity, or specified definitions and meanings of heaven or hell or the soul. This is likewise the case regarding questions such as whether Mohammad or Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard or Buddha were prophets.

Religion is an organized means by which a group of people study and worship God and attempt to apply such study to daily life and, by extension, to the society. God- based religions constitute a synthesis of faith and science as well as faith and politics. Ancient societies were totalitarian godless pagan states where the worship of a state-sponsored false god was managed and manipulated by a ruling clique. In those societies, all power emanated from a false god and a ruler, a human figurehead, would often assume godlike pretensions and, as such, who would demand complete submission. The moral code in those ancient societies was determined and molded by the ruler and his handlers as a means to suit their arbitrary whim and as a means to preserve and advance their earthly fiat power.

The ancient Israelites stood apart amongst the ancient nations as the first nation to believe in and worship the invisible divine God and this marked the de-facto beginning of civilization as individuals would begin to develop individual consciousness and organized societies based upon an immutable moral code. Thus, for the first time in history, morality and order would become recognized as existing outside the grasp of the man-made authoritarian state with its man-made idol. While the God of Israel was recognized by the Israelites as the creator of the entire universe and as the God of all people equally, nevertheless, worship of the God of Israel remained largely a state-sponsored affair in ancient Israel.

Jesus would change this paradigm when he recognized that belief in God and religion could exist outside the man-made state altogether. Jesus clearly articulated this principle when he personally challenged Pontius Pilate, the representative of Rome, which was the most powerful state the world had ever known, an empire that worshipped its emperor as god, by declaring that he answered to a higher authority, that he answered to an authority that existed beyond the reach of the power of the State, the power of Rome. Jesus noted the separation between two realms, that of God and that of Caesar. When the Roman Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire, and when he soon after began to regulate Christianity with the Council of Nicaea, Christianity essentially became a state religion. Between the time of Saint Paul and Constantine, Christianity had widely spread as the personal faith of the adherent who voluntarily accepted Jesus as personal Lord and Savior and as the intercessor between God and humans.

Martin Luther challenged the universalistic Roman Catholic authority by establishing what would become state religions that would, nevertheless, encourage the right of the individual to worship God. State religion had also been the prime modality of the eastern Orthodox Christian religions. Meanwhile, Judaism, bereft of state sovereignty after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, 70 CE, would focus its energies on a special covenantal relationship between its adherents and God. The United States would, essentially, revert to the faith of the early Christians with a synthesis of Judaism and Christianity. Thus, the American form of Christianity, which is closer to the spirit of the founder of the faith, Jesus, who is called the Christ by his followers, would embrace their respective churches as an expression of personal preference and conscience while viewing the role of the secular state as a separated protector of the natural right of the citizen to believe in and to worship God, or for that matter, to not believe in or worship God.

Believers in God and God-based societies have consistently and historically found guidance structure and solace from organized religion which provides a means to contemplate and worship, a method by which defined moral and ethical values may be studied and adapted, and a process by which such values may become incorporated into individual life, family life and secular society. Religion provides a receptacle for contemplating the mysteries of existence and for studying immutable moral and ethical principles that emanate from faith and science. Religion contains history and inherited wisdom which serves to deepen and advance an understanding of immutable truths as well as personal and societal notions of morality and custom. Religion contains structures by which the adherent may seek truth and meaning in life, solace for and shelter from life’s problems, atonement for sin, a means of redemption, the painful contemplation of death and the afterlife and a ritual structure that marks important personal and historic events for individuals, for families, and for communities. Religion offers a sense of continuity with the past, a means of marking events of the present and a call to action to strive toward a better and more moral life.

Thus, religion is all about God, Family, and Country in that order of importance. Religion constitutes a synthesis of faith and science as if God is true than science, which is a study of that which is true, cannot exist as science, per se, without God. The separation of God and the discipline of science should not be mistaken for the more appropriate separation between parochial religion and