Does god exist?

Question

Most religions claim god to be omniscient and omnipotent. This translates to:

Omniscient:
1 : having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight
2 : possessed of universal or complete knowledge

Omnipotent:
1: often capitalized : almighty 1
2: having virtually unlimited authority or influence

If these things are true, God all knowing sees all suffering, without a doubt yet chooses to do nothing to stop it or can't stop it meaning he's NOT omnipotent. OR He's not aware of everything (Omniscient) (also not a supreme being). If he's truly both as everyone says, he must not be a very friendly entity, having the power to halt the suffering of his beloved, seeing it, and doing nothing about it.

Maybe this is hell after all and our God is set about punishing us all.

Answer 1

Please read the book, " god is not great" by Christopher Hitchens. You must have the intelligence and bravery to read this book, because it will destroy your religion - if you have one. Or you could read, "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Most religious people are really unwilling and afraid to read such books, because they are indoctrinated almost from birth to believe all the religious gibberish ; and such intelligent free-thinking enquiry blows away the religious rubbish

Answer 2

Although this question is very GENERAL, I'll try to answer.
I think according to your beliefs on what God is, then no, God could not by your definitions. But take into account that God still has limitations even if he can do everything. For example, a huge arguement is "Can God Kill Himself?" "Can god squeeze a rock bigger than his hand?"

I'm Christian and I believe there is a God solely because I think the world was not made by accident. Here humans our, on this tiny ball of matter rotating around a huge ball of hydrogen gas in the expansions of space it just baffling to me.

However, I can see that everyone has different views on God, and in your case, that he's omnipotent and omniscient, yet still can do....etc.

The final conclusion: Whatever you believe. It's a hard answer to accept, but it's the only one. Your facts make up what you believe in. Some ppl (like me), however, give up reason and trade it for faith.

Best of Luck!

Answer 3

Actually, you haven't considered something.
If God is also omnipresent, he is everywhere. Which means:

He is us.

All of us. Nothing is separate from us.

Truth be told, hard to take seriously someone who whines about pain they self-inflict.

Our cells die all the time. Some get damaged, some are deliberately removed.

Are you evil and out to punish your body?

Again, kind of silly to think of God as the "punisher".

Then there is the idea that God is our baby sitter. Even if he is all knowing and all powerful, you paint him bad because he no longer babysits us?

Didn't he try that?

Didn't we ignore him, repeatedly?

When will people realize we are mature and responsible for our OWN behavior and world. He doesn't owe us to baby sit us for all eternity.

Get over it.

Is your argument that: "You have more money than poor people in Africa. What an evil person you are for not giving them what they want, when they want it, where they want it?"

I would hope not.

Answer 4

"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument isn't worth a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid from making a fortune with his book Who is this God Person Anyway?"

--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Answer 5

no
and your argument is an old one. i forget who started that one

And actually VERY few religion posit a god that is omniscient and omnipotent, almost all of them have limits. The judeo-xian god is quite the exception there.

Answer 6

You've answered you're own question (like Epicurus before you). The god of the abrahamic religions doesn't exist.

And there is no evidence for any other.

Answer 7

This isn't hell because we can experience more than negative emotions here. If you can feel happiness, you aren't in hell. Even if it is a tiny bit. I am sure a deity exists, I am just not sure what to call it.

Answer 8

no

this is a classical atheistic idea. but i have seen many apologetic fundamentalist destroy this line of thought. It is a good start keep it up.

Answer 9

To answer your question, Do aliens exist. If you don't believe in aliens ( & there is NO real proof they exist) why would you helieve in a god that there is NO real proof exists.

Answer 10

He can interfere if he wants, through Providence, or allow free agency.