Is 'God' non-existent by definition?

Question

There are a great many arguments about the bible's accuracy, there are big holes in every argument ever put forward for God's existence but I think there is a huge, glaring one - doesn't the word 'God' mean something mythical - doesn't the term say about HOW something is perceived (venerated, worshipped) and nothing about WHAT it is? It's like the term MONSTER - I can call something or someone that but it only tells you how I see it - nothing about what the thing is. Don't these terms imply that they're constructions? One we make to scare children? One we made to scare adults? Discuss!

"God is a fact, not a myth"

Thanks Darth, I think its great that Jehovah/Allah is a REAL God not like those mythical gods, zeus, baal, thor, odin, ra, shiva - Dont you see religion is just a myth that hasn't gone out of fashion, yet.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

God can't be proven that he exists. He doesn't want it to be. If you choose to believe in the Bible than you learn lots of things about what God is, who he is, and even his personality. You can choose to believe that God is a construction. But with the Bible being over 2000 years old, written over a 1500 year span, by over 40 authors, on 3 different continents, and in 3 different languages. I find that the idea of God being "constructed" is kinda like the idea of love being "constructed". How can man make that which is eternal?

Answer 3

No; one can imagine the existence of a supernatural thing with some list of attributes, and call that thing God. What one cannot do is to prove that that thing actually exists, let alone has the listed attributes. It is not the definition which is non-existent -- it is the instantiation.

Answer 4

God is the definition of a non-contingent being that is beyond time and uncreated. The existence of darkness proves the existence of light, the existence of imperfection requires the existence of perfection. A contingent world cannot come into being by itself. It requires a being which is itself uncontingent, all-powerful, beyond time or space, uncreated.

God is a fact, not a myth. He is a logical conclusion, not a belief.

Answer 5

Definitions of God, how about:
Father
Son
Holy Spirit
Creator
Judge
Sovereign
Loving
Holy
All Powerful
Ever Present
Faithful
Unchanging
Truthful
Righteous
Just
Self Existent
Self Sufficient
Eternal

That's my God

Answer 6

Same as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny

Answer 7

Man has not yet developed the words to describe what God is.

Answer 8

Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be counted by calculators and whose claim (to obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate, and the divings of understanding cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is ordained and no duration is fixed. He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence, dispersed winds through His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with rocks.

The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute. Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him; and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.

Whoever said in what is He, held that He is contained; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else. He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being. He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical nearness. He is different from everything but not in physical separation. He acts but without connotation of movements and instruments. He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation. He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in his absence.

Answer 9

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The proof and evidence is all around you and everywhere, undeniable proof, and indisputable visible evidence. It is called creation and life. Unless your are blind, deaf, and senseless. You can see, smell, taste, hear, feel, and examine the evidence.
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We live on a planet teeming with life. Plant life with approximately 250,000 species, animal life with over a million species. Scientists are learning just how complex life is. So complex that it requires design. The evidence of design requires a designer. Scientists are also learning the conditions for life; just how perfect conditions here on planet Earth are to support all this life.
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The human brain, it absorbs forty megabytes per second of data while awake. That is two terabytes of data a day. At night, it sorts and stores that data through the creation of new chemical bonds and synaptic connectors.
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Sure, right, this all just happened and evolved. This sort of thinking takes considerable faith, exponentially more faith than believing in a creator.
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Answer 10

the same could be said for creationist theories. they contain huge holes in every argument. doesnt the word "theory" mean hypathetical, its like the word "guess''. just kinda what you think happened.