Our God — Page 86
86 will have to believe that He is recent. A created God cannot be immortal and we will have to believe that He is mortal. If God is created, He cannot be self-subsisting and He would have to be sustained by one who is His creator and master. If God is created, He cannot be omnipotent and we will have to believe that His powers are limited and that the one who is his creator and master can interfere with His works as and when he likes. If God is cre- ated, He cannot be one and we will have to consider the possibil- ity of many other gods besides Him, since there is no reason why the being that could create one god would not have created many gods to affirm the vastness of his attributes of creation, power, and sovereignty. If God is created, He cannot be permanent and independent in any of His attributes and we will have to believe that each of His attributes is dependent on the will and mercy of one who created Him, because each attribute of the one who is created is also created and governed by the Creator. In short, as a consequence of believing that God is created, all His attrib- utes—arguably the pillars of Divine Throne—become invalid and God appears like ordinary created beings that seek support from their creator and master in everything and have no independent existence at all. In short, from whichever angle you look at it, to be God and to be created are so opposed and contradictory to each other that they cannot exist together in one being in any way. Therefore, we are compelled not to deem the Being we call God to be created and not to use the name ‘God’ for the one we deem to be created.