Talk:Rebirth or Resurrection: A Whimsical Abrahamic God
We see that in this world, some people are born rich, while others are born poor. Some are born in virtuous and noble households while others are born amongst sinners. Some live amongst Christians (or Muslims) while others have never met any member of these faiths. In all these pairs, the former alone will attain salvation (according to Christians and Moslems) while the rest will go to hell since they have lost the only chance they had to hear the liberating word of Christ/Muhammad. Is it not unfair?. Why does God create people unequally and yet judge them by the same rules? It would have been fairer on the part of God to have given another birth to these helpless beings so that they had a better chance to listen to His ‘liberating’ message.
The Koran often says- "He guides whosoever He pleases and leads astray whomsoever He wills" while the Bible describes numerous incidents where the Christian God himself leads people astray, causing their ruin. If God himself leads people astray, what will the poor Satan do? And how will such God-damned people be judged once they die? Hinduism declares, on the other hand, that we choose to be good or bad of our own volition and due to the effects of actions performed by us in our previous lives. For instance, if we devote our present lives to good activities, we will naturally be more inclined towards good and noble things in our future lives and vice versa.
The Bible (especially the Gospels) often comforts the naturally disadvantaged poor, sick, and needy by saying that their suffering on this earth will lead them to the riches of heaven while ‘it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter heaven.". This other-worldly and antirich view can only lead to the ruin of this world. Also, such statements have no logical basis—what is the sense of suffering here just to go to heaven later? Why in the first place did God create people unequally? Hinduism supplies a good answer by saying that inequalities at birth are due to our actions in previous lives. The Semitic God is thus whimsical and lacks common sense.
Not only does the view that there is only one life not explain the inequalities amongst individuals based on birth, but it does also not explain why some human beings are born with often debilitating and disabling congenital defects like blindness, deafness, and so on. What was God’s plan for them that he created them with these disabilities?