Adventists have a belief that after the second coming, the “saints” will judge God. This doctrine is really the ultimate corollary for the absurdity of salvation and the ultimate in circular reasoning.

This is part of the “Great Controversy,” a doctrine that before the creation of the earth, Lucifer, the highest of the archangels rebelled against God. The claim was that he was arbitrary and capricious. Essentially that God was unjust. Most of the angles sided with Lucifer. Then the second person of the godhead, later to become Jesus Christ, took the form of an angel and the name Michael. Michael was able to win back most of the angels, but in the end a third of them were exiled along with Lucifer to restore order to Heaven.

Satan has been continuing to accuse God of being unjust throughout the millennia. The unfolding of human events, namely the plan of salvation was meant to exonerate God. However, the disease, pestilence, holy wars, natural disasters, and the atrocities attributed to God in the Bible would prove his vileness in my mind.

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Also according to Adventist doctrine, we are currently in the probationary period where God is reviewing the records and issuing verdicts for all people throughout history. This was to have begun October 22, 1844, so I’m wondering why it’s taking so long. Maybe God’s using Microsoft Windows and the computer keeps crashing on him before he saves the “The Book of Life.”

In the end God will have judged favorably one group who suspends logic and reason to blindly follow him, even with a lack of evidence. Then after the Second Coming, God will be put on trial. Those same people who have just received the ultimate bribe will be the jury and will judge God as having been just.

I can’t believe that I ever believed in such a perversion of justice and even thought it to be good.