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Resource Box: The Purpose of Creation by Dr. P.C. Simon, Copyright 2003. Also by Dr. P.C. Simon, The Missing Piece to Paradise, an inspiring, informative, and life-changing book. More articles by Dr. Simon can be seen at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm
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The Nature of the Creator
Part 2 in the “Purpose of Creation” series
by
Dr. P.C. Simon
copyright 2003
Why did the creator create the universe with all living beings? Why did he create these frail beings that appear as a weed one day and disappear the next?
Was He/She looking for slaves to worship him or underlings to pay homage? Was he looking for adoration from his creation that had no freedom to do anything other than what he wanted them to do?
The praises and adoration by his own creation would be just like my making a tape recording of self adulation and listening to it every day. It would not satisfy even the ego of a vainglorious human being. Then in what way will it benefit the great Creator of the universe?
If he is a cruel monster who likes to see living creatures go through agony, like an ignorant child plucking the wings and legs off flies, we can believe that he might have created human beings to cast them in hell and see them writhe in pain and beg for mercy.
But the creation does not reflect such cruel nature. On the contrary Creator has given mothers, even mothers of animals, infinite love for their progeny. They sacrifice their lives and offer themselves as prey when predators attack their young ones. We see this in Africa when leopards attack young gazelles. I have seen it myself. I could not find any cruelty in the nature of the creator.
If we watch birds, we will see their untiring enterprise to find food for their nestlings, coaxing the raptorial birds away from the nestlings, and protecting the young ones with self-sacrifice. All these are examples of their loving nature. These indicate that the creator has endowed them with love.
Still I did not find the purpose of creation. Then I argued that if I can find out the substance of the Creator, I might be able to find his nature, just as Mendeleyev, the Russian scientist found the nature of atoms from their substance. I tried this approach namely to find the substance of the Creator but I could not. I thought that the substance of the creator may be energy. But there was no proof for it. It was only an assumption on my part. So I rejected that idea.
Then I changed the focus of my investigation. The next question I posed was with what substance did the Creator create the universe? I could not find a satisfactory answer even for that question.
Therefore the next question was "What was there for the Creator to create with?" I realised that before anything was created, only the Creator existed and nothing else. This is axiomatic and needs no proof. The Creator had only His/Her own substance. There was nothing else in the universe. Therefore he had to create with His own substance.
That means the substance of the creation and the substance of the Creator is the same. If the substance is the same, the nature must be the same. Then the nature of the tangible, observable and knowable creation, is the nature of the intangible, invisible, unknowable Creator. By studying the nature of the creation, I will know the nature of the Creator. This was an exhilarating idea and I was overjoyed. But very soon it ended in disappointment.
For there are millions of substances in the universe, organic, inorganic, chemical or physical, natural or artificial, solid, liquid, and on and on and each substance has dozens of natures or qualities. Which nature of which substance am I to study? I found it impossible to study all natures of all objects in the universe in my life time. I was about to give up in disgust.
Then an intuitive information appeared. Since the substance is the same for all creation there must be a common nature among them. If so, what is that common nature? So, I looked for common natures and I found many common natures. There were many substances with common natures such as liquid, solid, smooth or rough, hard or soft, natures common to many substances but I could not find one nature common to all substances.
Finally, when I was about to give up in disgust, as if by providential nudging, I hit upon gravity. Gravity is attraction or love. That could be the nature of the creator!
