It carried to fulfillment a long development
of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights
of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value
of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless
of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption
of souls; and it proclaimed as the
ultimate goal
of divine
creation and human hope the kingdom
of God in «new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
He could snap his fingers and make everything work the way he wants, without anyone suffering on
earth, and without EVER UNNECCESSARILY PLACING THE SOULS
OF HIS «
ULTIMATE CREATION» IN ANY DANGER WHATSOEVER.
not contributing to any sort
of distruction is a start, but is
creation really the
ultimate, given our short time on this
earth?