[4] Then finally Your God with all His inscrutable deep wisdom and goodness and with all the things that He created will have the greatest joy and find His greatest pleasure in killing and completely destroying, after a short existence, all His very wisely equipped created beings.
[5] Then why did a Moses come and all the other prophets? What were these laws of Moses then good for, which were at all times difficult to keep? And what was the use of those many plagues that God brought down on the Jews and other people each time when they did not act and live according to His revealed will?
[6] I mean: for the receiving of the eternal life of the soul after the departure from the body every dog’s life would almost have been good enough. Why would you educate people and train them spiritually? For the receiving of a certain eternal death of man’s soul after the death of the body, man needs nothing else except – just like the animals – to have his daily food. Then why would one teach people to think, make conclusions and reason? That would undeniably embitter their miserable existence. All the people who are now spiritually called would unfortunately even have to strangle their children immediately after their birth, so that later, when they are grown up and able to think and are conscious of themselves, would not be plagued with all kinds of things and would also never have to fear to lose forever their often sweet tasting life.
[7] I confess here openly that, according to Your teaching, I owe in no way any gratitude to the God that is preached by You, because He did not place me on this world for some continuous happiness, but only for the greatest unhappiness that will embitter my whole life. The sooner He will destroy me again, the greater the favor He will show me.
[8] And frankly, to receive an eternal life of the soul by way of exception by believing Your word and Your teaching, I do not want at all, because I, as an eternally living soul, will have in mind that multitudes of people are destroyed by Your God forever. Then I endlessly more prefer an eternal non-existence instead of a miserable eternal existence.
[9] If ever You are capable of even one sound thought, You and Your blind disciples will realize by my words that Your teaching is even less suitable for the true happiness of people than the teaching of the Sadducees who conformed their teaching with that of the Greek worldly philosopher Diogenes. That teaching is more comforting to everyone than Your teaching, according to which one should only believe in You to attain to the eternal life of the soul. Truly, never will any true friend of the people be grateful to You for that teaching of Yours. And now all the people in the temple and also outside of the temple must decide if ever I spoke even one incorrect word to You. Answer me, if You can!”
8. A Pharisee explains his philosophy of life [1] A Pharisee, who thought to be a very wise man, said: "Well, by these words of Yours I can now really see that You are talking like a madman who does not have, and also cannot have, any idea of the true nature of God, of His endless wisdom, power and greatness and of the way upon which He arranged the circumstances of this world and its creatures. Because look, You claim that the eternal life of the soul of a human being depends only on the full faith in You, in Your word and in Your teaching, and that every soul who does not do that can expect eternal death – which is mostly the case because without his fault he knows and also cannot know anything about You. Now, then You are, and also the God who sent You into this world, the most unwise and unjust almighty being that a reasonable man can imagine. [2] Can those people, who have lived hundreds and thousands of years before us, help it if they impossibly could have heard anything of Your teaching, which is the only thing that can give life to all souls? Those people are thus, according to Your word, without exception, in eternal death? [3] And further, can these numerous nations that exist and survive somewhere on this big Earth, help it if maybe within 1.000 years they still will not have heard one syllable of Your teaching? We must then conclude that those poor people will also be dead forever.
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