RE: Proof that God doesn't exist
November 2, 2012 at 12:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2012 at 12:17 am by FallentoReason.)
(November 1, 2012 at 11:30 pm)whateverist Wrote:(October 31, 2012 at 11:04 am)FallentoReason Wrote: The universe is his creation. Because he willed it into being, it must be a reflection of how he wanted a universe to be like.
I've never understood this common assumption. Why do we assume that the God of the bible could whip up anything anything He wants any way He wants it. This pulling the universe out of your ass work may be harder than it looks. All the omni-attributes God is assumed to have - where does that come from? Would a goatherd's estimate of a God's power really be so reliable? What the hell is his frame of reference?
The problem with this and any other proof is no one really knows shit about 'God'. Nada.
I completely agree. To construct my argument though, I was forced to assume that a divine being exists, that it created a universe it actually cared about, that it created other heavenly beings which he knew would possibly rebel i.e. Satan, that he created a garden where his first creations were deceived by the thing he knew would decieve his creations, that these beings would produce 3 000+ other gods, that Satan conveniently set up these 3 000+ other gods to make it harder to find the true god, that Jesus is 100% original despite all this, that he came to redeem us from what he started and that people in a superstitious world actually were recording the One Truth, which can be found in the Bible. Only then can I say that God's two wills make it seem like he decided to will his own non-existence in the first place.
Meeting theists halfway really drains you intellectually. So many hoops to jump through!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle