God is a committee

It has been said that a camel is a horse put together by a committee.

It is also said that God has created everything that exists now or that ever has existed or that will ever exist in the future.

That assumption creates many problems for many folks.

Maybe God is a committee.

That would help explain the following.

Consider: On the one hand, God hath created an incredibly beautiful world, with gorgeous mountains and foaming seas, sun-tanned deserts and blue-green lakes. God hath further created all the animals and plants of the earth - and humans have marvelled for years how marvelous they are and all creation is.

On the other hand, God hath created hurricanes and tornadoes, and sink holes and comets crashing. God hath created mountains that blow up and mountains that come crashing down. God hath created disease and pain that escapes not even innocent children. God hath created the pestilence of evil that reigns upon the earth.

How can this be?

God is a committee.

That's why God can be god and be responsible for all of the above. It also explains why God created human beings with free will, and then became angry when they exercised that free will and killed them all, except for one crazy old coot by name of Noah, who immediately after his salvation fell again into horrible sins.

That's why the god of the Bible can command his people not to kill and in the next breath tell them they must kill their children if the latter fail to observe the Sabbath. That's why the Biblical god can tell his people to kill all their enemies except for the women; they can save the women to rape them.

That's why Jesus' can say his god is so full of love that not even a sparrow escapes his attention, but turn right around and promise that sinners will burn forever in a hell of fire.

Obviously, the god in which most people believe is contradictory, moody, morose, spiteful, angry, schizophrenic, paranoid, bi-polar, occasionally loving (if people obey his commands or believe the right theology), and more.

There's only one explanation. God is a committee.

Most Biblical scholars recognize that fact already even though they don't use that terminology. We get our understanding of god from the Biblical writings, and the Bible was put together by a large committee of various writers over a period of a thousand years. These writers present widely-varying pictures of god. That's why thousands of books have been written to try to explain which exactly is the "right" picture.

Their is no "right" picture as they are all right.

God is a committee.

So the next time you pray, start this way: "Whereas, I have tried my best..."