A Respond to Feuerbach
According to Feuerbach, God was only the objection of human aspirations. According to his ideology, people who are hoping for peace will create a God who will bring peace. Humans hope for love, and so create a God of Love. In another word, humans create a God as the mirror of their hopes. His naively optimistic view of humankind was the oppositionist of the nature of man which the scripture portrayed. According to the bible humankind could never compared with the Holiness of Sovereignty God. In Roman 3:10-12, the scripture said “As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God” (NIV).
Feuerbach ignores the evils and vices of human nature. According to him, humans create a God as the mirror of their hopes and their needs. On the other hand, Christianity was truly like the mirror of mankind’s’ hope. However, the teaching of the bible is beyond even what the most intelligent noble man could imagine God, according to Feuerbach, is projection of the strongest desires of humanity. However, the holiness of God in the Bible could never be the projection of the desire of man. As God’s power is the opposite of the native weakness of the creature, as His wisdom is in complete contrast from the least defect of understanding or folly, so His holiness is the very antithesis of all moral blemish or defilement (2 Chron. 20:21). It is illogical to say that imperfect being create the perfect being. If God is just the projection of man’s imagination God should be more like man. It is impossible for man to articulate the idea without prior knowledge about it. The characteristics and attributes of God could not derive from man’s idea of perfect man. Man could not create beyond his understanding and desire. However, God is beyond human understanding and desire (Job36:26). Ludwig Feuerbach’s greatest weakness was undermining the evil desire of man. There are imbalances between His ignorance but positive attitude toward humanity verses the fallen nature of man. It is too naïve to say that man has good desire even when he is doing bad deeds. Therefore, it is impossible for man to project the most holy God.
Feuerbach ignores the evils and vices of human nature. According to him, humans create a God as the mirror of their hopes and their needs. On the other hand, Christianity was truly like the mirror of mankind’s’ hope. However, the teaching of the bible is beyond even what the most intelligent noble man could imagine God, according to Feuerbach, is projection of the strongest desires of humanity. However, the holiness of God in the Bible could never be the projection of the desire of man. As God’s power is the opposite of the native weakness of the creature, as His wisdom is in complete contrast from the least defect of understanding or folly, so His holiness is the very antithesis of all moral blemish or defilement (2 Chron. 20:21). It is illogical to say that imperfect being create the perfect being. If God is just the projection of man’s imagination God should be more like man. It is impossible for man to articulate the idea without prior knowledge about it. The characteristics and attributes of God could not derive from man’s idea of perfect man. Man could not create beyond his understanding and desire. However, God is beyond human understanding and desire (Job36:26). Ludwig Feuerbach’s greatest weakness was undermining the evil desire of man. There are imbalances between His ignorance but positive attitude toward humanity verses the fallen nature of man. It is too naïve to say that man has good desire even when he is doing bad deeds. Therefore, it is impossible for man to project the most holy God.
Ref:
Revolutions in Worldview: Understanding the Flow of Western Thought. Editor Andrew Hoffecker
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