Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #242 – You Will Have Eternal Consequences from a Perfect God

			Some people when they start to think about God, or they start to think about freewill, and
predestination, or all these sorts of issues, they exhibit an extreme degree of skepticism or let's
say, unrealistic expectations as to what they can understand. It's as if some people will not be
satisfied until they can actually be God, right? Or have the perspective of God, right? When they
say, Oh, why did this happen this way, like some people mean by that, that I won't be satisfied
until I understand it as if I'm God, like, I want to understand the motivations that lead God to do
this, or lead God to do that. And those folks are barking up the wrong tree, because there's a
		

			certain acceptance that needs to take place. Now, here's a caveat, a caveat in Islam, you know, we
are not, we don't go to the same extreme that Christians go to where everything is just well, you
just have to believe and don't ask those questions and whatever. We believe in asking questions and
thinking about things and you know, much more to a much greater degree than than most strains of
Christianity. However, however, there are limits, there are limits to what you can understand,
right? For people who are hard materialists and believe that thought occurs in the brain and believe
that thought is, you know, whatever the firing of neurons that go on in the brain, isn't the brain a
		

			muscle? Okay? Isn't the brain a physical reality, or at least the locus of the brain, the locus of
thought is a physical reality doesn't any sort of physical muscle or appendage have limits? Right?
And there is, you know, some discrepancy between individuals as to ability and capability, right? If
you go to the gym, and I go to the gym, maybe you can best benchpress I don't know, whatever, 200
pounds, maybe I can't maybe I can only best benchpress like 150, maybe the strongest dude in the
world can benchpress I don't know, 500 pounds, okay, but there's a certain limit that no human being
can benchpress, right, that's literally limited by the physicality of the muscle, or the appendage
		

			or the tool or whatever. Okay, so if the locus of thought is the brain, let's just take that, like,
for a second as as, let's imagine that that's, that's completely certainly true, then it has limits.
It's a physical organ, and it has limits as to what you can comprehend. And we accept this and other
spheres, right? It's like, what you can see what you can understand. Even just, you know, history,
right? The you know, it's not possible to be able to comprehend the perspective of every human being
on Earth right now, let alone the perspective of every human being that's ever lived. So what makes
you think you're going to be able to understand the perspective of God, right? So we need to not
		

			fool ourselves. And we need to have sober expectations as to what we're capable of, and what we're
not capable of. And we need to not get trapped with dead ends, write the questions that really are
important to somebody that come to bear on faith, and whether they should kind of accept a faith or
submit themselves as some sort of revealed religion, or, or whatever is that, is this reasonably
likely to be true? And does it make sense that this is expected of me? Because a lot of people all
have these sorts of excessive mental gymnastics or, let's say, dead ends that they pursue, right?
Really? What are they? How do they function, they function as an excuse to not reckon with having to
		

			be morally responsible or morally accountable, right? That's it at the end of the day, religion is
about accountability, you're gonna have eternal consequences from a perfect God. That's it. And
there's nothing that's going to make you act right or behave right. When war breaks out, when you're
starving when everything's going crazy. When there's violence, there's nothing that's going to make
you act right and behave morally, except for religion. That's it. And so the question is, are you
going to submit yourself to moral accountability or not, you can distract yourself with all these
theoretical questions and trying to comprehend things that you can't possibly ever, ever comprehend.
		

			Or you can ask yourself, Do I need to submit to something for my eternal life? Or do I need to
submit myself to a moral regime that comes from a source that's outside of of human folly? Right, an
ethical sort of standard that's outside of human folly? Right And okay, maybe you haven't agreed at
this point that religion is outside of human follow folly. But the claim is that it is the claim is
that it is and maybe the things that you should be investigating aren't trying to understand God
from God's perspective, but trying to verify whether these things are actually produced by human
beings or whether they actually come from some other source