Evidence for Believing

[Simon Moon]

You do understand that the video was not meant to be an exact depiction of the Biblical god, but a sardonic depiction meant to show how ridiculous some of the stories, and the god depicted is, right?

For example; a god that wants all of humanity to believe and worship him, yet only appears to a very small geographical area, and a barbaric and illiterate tribe.

So you don't believe in the bible ergo God does not exist? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to say that the bible is one nation's story about their faith? It would be ridiculous if God only cared about the Jews, I agree with that. And I'm not anti-semitic at all. The bible is not a comprehensive vision of God, it's a collection of books about a particular human narrative, that may or may not have happened.

My disbelief in gods has nothing to do with the Bible being a book of mythology, that, in any important ways, does not reflect reality.

I never claimed, with absolute certainty, that a god do not exist. My position is, that the case for the existence of a god has never met its burden of proof, therefore I have no warrant of justification to believe a god exists. My atheism is a product of correctly applied skepticism and critical thinking, and is a provisional position, not a dogmatic one.

I will stop being an atheist, as soon as the case for the existence of a god has met its burden of proof, with demonstrable, verifiable and falsifiable evidence, and reasoned argument.

natural, no, because nature is limited to space, time, matter and energy. Neither a being nor a process, but whatever it is that causes anything to be. Personally I like Aristotle's idea of God as the pure act of being. I also don't think acknowledging this requires any faith in the bible. The bible describes a possible revelation to one species in this little corner of a group of a spiral arm of a speck of dust in the natural universe, that I happen to believe in. That doesn't make its claims more palatable to someone who believes in the uniformity of nature (that miracles never happen) but its faith in something particular, in a particular place, at a particular time, and not a philosophical treatise on all that God is and does.

Maybe there isn't anything that caused things to be. Maybe it is a brute force fact, that existence has always existed. Even before our local presentation of the universe expanded.

Please describe the state of nothing, as in nothing being. How can absolute nothing even "be"?