Q&A: What Does God Want from the Majority?!
What Does God Want from the Majority?!
Question
On another topic:
At a simple glance, most of the world does not do God’s will.
That is: they do not believe in the minimal faith in God, Mount Sinai, and so on.
So there are two possibilities:
A. God is interested in what they believe. Meaning, there really is not one single truth that gives Him satisfaction, even though there is a truth for someone who searches—minimal Jewish faith.
B. God is not interested in them, and the Creator of the world created billions so that maybe one percent would actually do what is required. That’s unbelievably harsh, isn’t it? Because in the end the majority are just scenery?!
And why does this bother me?
Because most people are good and upright, but simple and innocent, and in most cases they just continue the tradition of their ancestors, however ridiculous it may be: Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and other kinds…
So if the second option is correct, and the game is harsh, why would a person born to a Jewish family receive reward when it is obvious to everyone that if he had been born Christian or Muslim he would be praying to Jesus or Muhammad?!
After all, both mean well and innocently believe their ancestors, and in some cases when they have questions they overcome them because it is the evil inclination and “problems of faith”—so where is the justice?!
If someone truly believed that murdering a Jew is good, is he holy like the Vilna Gaon? No?
And if the first option is correct: then it seems as though God does not really care about the truth, because otherwise He would make sure that everyone was truly in it, and knew it, and within that they would struggle.
Because simply speaking, it seems that most of the world does not arrive at the truth because that is how their system of thought is built. In other words, beyond the point of choice.
What do you think?! The topic and your opinion interest me very much.
Thank you very much.
Answer
God is not supposed to make sure of anything. People have free choice and they decide their path. Sometimes this affects their descendants, and that is how “captured infants” are created. The question is whether people who act innocently will be punished. Very likely not.
Discussion on Answer
First, I said he would not be punished. You added the reward and the equality.
But I have no idea what is supposed to happen up there. I only assume that there is justice there. That is all. The same applies to the Holy One’s purposes.
Rabbi,
Why do you assume that God is a God of justice? I saw that this statement comes up again in your book The First Existent. Does the Rabbi have a proof of this, evidence for it?
The prophets transmitted this to us, and He Himself also testifies about Himself this way, and His demands of us also indicate it. So if something is green on the outside and red on the inside and has watermelon seeds, then it is probably a watermelon.
God does not want anything from them. They are just suffering because we are not fulfilling God’s will…
So a sincere priest will receive reward like a serious Jew?!
And why does God really leave so many people in the dark? True, it is their ancestors’ bad choice, but it is just a waste of time—isn’t that a shame? What is the point?