Scheme Of Test And Nihilism
Two points. God’s scheme of test and reward and punishment makes complete sense. If this world is not a test it is but an a futile and gruesome endeavour of God or natural forces. If hereafet is not there, this all is unjust. The world and the life make sense only when world has its counterpart where all the injustice pain and suffering will be compensated and also the rest of intellect and conscience will be rewarded. Second point. If God willed He could have not done that. Yes. He could have not done this or could have made it less severe. But He chose to do it this way. This is His will. At the end when we will have our eternal rewards we will think of life and suffering here worth it. Rather we will be thankful to be compensated eternally for a very short span of test and suffering.
Does nihilism ( denial of God as well as any purpose in life ) make more sense just because someone is unable to comprehend God’s scheme ? That’s completely irrational and illogical. Just because someone doesn’t understand Calculus doesn’t deny the existence of Calculus. People who fall for this kind of line of reasoning have generally not spent any serious time or sincere effort in trying to understand the truth . I am yet to come across a single denier of the concept of God who has already read the entire Quran or has at least adequately understood God’s message and His scheme before criticizing it . More often than not people take only a small portion of the concept of God acquired from hearsay stories or a few books/videos, blow it out of proportion, apply their own speculations and baseless logic, and then conclude that God doesn’t exist. While such behavior doesn’t put any dent on the concept or the existence of God, it is however ignorant and profoundly self deceiving. I’m not sure where you came up with the suicide stats you shared above, but the real rate of suicide in human beings is extremely low. According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) less than 10 out of 100,000 people committed suicide in 2019 ; that’s 0.0001% of every 100,000 population globally. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SUIC.P5 Such an insignificant rate of suicide in humanity despite all the pain and suffering is evidence within itself that humanity as a whole has understood and accepted the test , whether consciously or subconsciously. Atheism is a completely baseless idea . This universe and our own existence within it cannot be explained without the concept of God, period . If there were any alternative plausible theories available, that would be a completely different story. In that case we would compare the God hypothesis with other theories to determine the most plausible one just like we do the same in science. Unfortunately that’s not the case. Many people think that science provides such alternative theories but I can confidently tell you that it does not . If you want to discuss any of the modern scientific theories such as the Neo-Darwinism or the Big Bang in a separate thread, I can show you how they’re purely speculative as opposed to a scientifically established concept of God . Even if such speculations are true they’re logically absurd without accepting an intelligent agent behind them.