Roles and Responsibilities of God

Being an Atheist I tried to argue on the possibility of “no god” with few of my religious friends. Later I realized that faith is the one which cannot be debated logically because it’s ‘faith’, and hence doesn’t need reasoning. Now I no more question them on the existence of god but instead started asking different questions. (I too search for answers).

• What are the roles and responsibilities of god?
• God is for us or we are for the god?

My further discussion will be with the following assumptions:

• God exists and he only created everything in the universe
• God is omnipotent
• God is omnipresent

I will also discuss with the human point of view as I am mostly associated with them.

What are the roles and responsibilities of god?

If this universe had been created few billion years ago, what are his roles and responsibilities after that? Is he sleeping? Is he busy creating more universes?

I got multiple answers from the religious people and I am highlighting 2 of them for our discussion:

• God controls or responsible for every action of the human
• God has given the freewill to the humans and will not involve in the day-to-day activities of us. But he will maintain an account of every good and evil you do.

If God had already decided your every action, it means we are living in a Matrix.

What’s the greatness of the omnipotent person in creating humans and controlling them? If we are controlled by a creator, then why do we need to pray him or praise him for what he is? What he is getting by making people suffer? What’s his objective behind it?

If God has given us the freewill, then we are responsible for our actions and not god. All he does is just maintaining the account of our good/sins. We pray to him to guide us to the right path, save us from suffering and we also believe he listens and acts on it… if that’s the case, don’t u think he is an emotional idiot, who listens to the prayers and help them?

If God is not listening to our prayers, then why we pray?

God is for us or we are for the god?

I often hear that people wanted to reach god and its their objective. We have built many temples, mosques, churches just to spread the god’s noble characters.
In fact many of the religious fanatics become a martyr to reach the god. If god wants everyone to reach him, why he created us? What’s noble cause in it?

If god is for us, then he is responsible for guiding the people who pray to him. Why we need to pray to god for every suffering we go through, don’t you think he should help us voluntarily?. “If he can cure a blind person, why not he cures the blindness itself”, asks Christopher Hitchens in Got is Not Great.

As Orhan Pamuk points out in Snow, "Faith in God was not something achieved by thinking sublime thoughts and stretching one's creative powers to their limits. Its just being part of a community"

Even if god exists, to me he seems to be a Selfish, Sadist, Tyrant, Emotional..., who needs to be fought against instead of praising/loving him.

Lets not spend our energy, money and time in praying god; lets leave the god freely and start living our lives. Our lives are in our hand.

As Bella says in Notting Hill, “The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life”.