A thought in the mind of God
I sit here, omnipotent and confused.
How can I,
by definition perfectly good,
have created a world
of devils
and temptations,
of rapists
and murderers,
of thieves
and child molesters?
From what part of
my perfection can
such imperfection spring?
I take no responsibility
for this mess.
It wasn't me!
Author notes
This is a smiley 
As an addition to this, I was wondering whether God meant to make the devil bad or whether the way he turned out was a mistake. Frowns 
Written August 8th, 2006
In a list
A contest entry
- What If You Were God? by .
400 points, ended August 9, 2006, 15 entries
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Very interesting
I love the angle, like 'Pilot' God washes his hands of all responsibility.
I also love the title, reminds me of Rupert Brooks Poem the Soldier -
'And think, this Heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind no less',
The comments below are almost as facinating as the poem that engenders them.
My comment on the age old question would be,-
When we are perfect, we will see perfection in everything around us, meanwhile we are not perfect, so the world reflects our imperfection back to us. I think we take ourselves to seriously, the world is after all a stage, and we are merely players on it. Some plays are horror stories and I guess this is one of them
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We are God's sandcastles
Formed from the grit
Walking water
Banners flying...
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No, it was not God who created the acts that people choose to do. So very sad to think of all of it like this.
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16 See, I Myself have made the workman who blows on the fire to give it more heat and makes a sword for its work. I have made the destroyer to destroy. 17 No tool that is made to fight against you will do well. And you will prove wrong every tongue that says you are guilty. This is the gift given to the servants of the Lord. I take away their guilt and make them right," says the Lord. From Isaiah 54
This line of thought is quite the mental exercise...
A perfect God, being responsible for the evil in his imperfect world... Maybe we... if we were robots, with no choice, we wouldn't be perfect humans? Maybe it is all a big expirement running its course. It is like a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
But God, bearing responsibility for the evil in the world, would need to be somehow punished. Maybe even crucified.
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absolutely - I think God is just like the rest of us. FINE (or F
fucked up, Iinsucure, Nneurotic, and Eemotional and thus we are indeed made in his image....... a bit of a circular argument I grant you..... xx debs -
LOL! It wasn't me!
Loved the poem! I applaud your good humor. I wish you the very best luck in the contest, and cross my toes you win (my fingers are needed to write more poems). 
Jim
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I was wondering if work gobbled you up and all you could write anymore was RFP's.
I've just finished reading Demian by Hesse, The Mark of Caine, Abraxas etc. I'm now reading a fabulous book about Art and Religion as well as reading about Gnosticism etc. This type of question is all over my mind.
Great poem to get people thinking. I don't think it is a smiley as much as a "thinker" icon with a smoking brain.
Nice to see something new. Hope your August is good.
Lisa
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so even God passes the buck..... I enjoyed this very much. good luck in the contest
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I hear what you say, parenchma, but it doesn't answer the fundamental question. A God whose creations are imperfect is not perfect. That is the logical difficulty that generations of philosophers have wrestled with: If God is completely perfect then anything he creates will be perfect too, and anything descended from that creation.
The Caballists tried to resolve this by postulating descending spheres to distance God from his imperfect creation, but in the end, they couldn't find a way to remove his responsibility as first cause. Either the world God created is perfect like its creator or He is imperfect like the world.
See my author's note above about the devil.
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I don't know if God can feel shame for what he see's when those
idiots choose to be thiefs and rapist and drug rotten bumbs.
But I do know God is omnipotent and perfection and if we make our choice His for His spirt to live with us we have nothing to worry about.
I never believed in Hell, but damn, now I think I do for where will all those idiots go?
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Interesting point.
Well actually he is correct when he said it was not him. But the other guy, you know the one. Interesting point here. But I did not write in this one because only God can be God and were I God well some folks better look out. So I can see the point in this one. -
God wouldn't think like this. I imagine it would be in grand, glittering arcs, probably shattering human knowledge and our pre-conceived notions of what things are. And I'd probably feel loved just by reading the words... if it could be put into words. Which it couldn't.
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Huh. You're not making God sound very omnipotent or powerful. You're making God sound like a helpless idiot. Well, I don't want to tell you what I think of God. I just want to say God knows thing we do not. Mwahahah. Err. . . what's the message you're trying to send in this poem? Tink mentions a message . . . And . . . uhh . . . please don't get offended by what I write. I'm just writing an honest criticism. Yeah, I sort of agree with WolfHeart.
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I think the beginning was a cliched critique of a supreme being. Still, I loved the pithy ending. It almost seems like a George W. Bush response! I think it would be great if you could clean up the first stanza to make it a more nuanced lament.
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This is actualy kinda funny. i can picture god seeing what we have done.. and kind of covering his eyes and looking the other goin...ummm yeah.. oh jeez i hope my boss doesnt see this. i dontknow who god's boss is but still easy to picture. good poem
~Poet of Dreams~ -
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God does not want puppets. What fun are beings to toadie to every whim and live in fear of the master? The world is a physical thing, and obeys physical laws and facts... gravity, light and dark, up and down - We have the choice which way to go. Parenchma has pointed out good references to the truth. However, it is as simple as this: I believe because I know, have seen His face and walked His paths. I have battled the enemy and know that lover overcomes all things.
Your poem is intense, but I could not love a God who whimpered and whined it wasn't His fault. My God has pride and knows what He is doing. He lives up to His responsibilities, and we would be much better people if we did the same.
hugs WolfHeart -
very creative
I wondered as I began to read... but loved its succinct ending -
Its called free agency. He does not take back his gifts; even if they are missused. His desire is to be sought out and loved. He has left prodigious clues of his existence; but our choice to love, to be valid, must include the choice of evil, of hatred; of disinterest, or half hearted service, even the energetic denial of his existence. he walks a thin line of leaving messages, and not overwhelming us with evidence, so that our choice is valid.
He does offer proof; in statistical analysis of fulfilled prophesy in the bible. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 encourages us to put everything to the test. In Isaiah 49 he declares he makes known the end from the beginning from ancient times, what is still to come. He challenges the competition to do the same in Isaiah 43: 21+. Psalms 22 and Isa 53 describe the crucifixion and purpose of from 1000 and 700 years before.Daniel predicts Artexerses proclomation to rebuild Jerusalem 100 years in advace, then the messiah's arrival 490 years after that in 9:24+. Ezekiel 36 talks of Israel being reborn as a nation in the last days. This happened in 1948; the nation not existing since AD 70. And there are hundreds more...
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yes, interesting write..especially the part in which you say imperfection springing out of his perfection...makes you wonder...
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wow, I really like this a lot. It's short, but still has a very awesome message. I really appreciate your contribution to this contest, thanks for entering. ♥ Tink
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