Omniscience:
It has long been state that God is all knowing. However, this creates many problems with other supposed traits of God. For example, if God is all knowing, then he knows the past, present and future. If he knows the future, then he has had fore-knowledge of every disaster, tragedy, murder, rape, death, war, etc. that has ever occurred. Therefor, he always chose not to intervene and prevent these terrible things from happening. How can a god who supposedly loves all humans allow 8 year old girls to be raped and murdered?
If god is all knowing, then free will is merely an illusion. If he knows exactly what every person will ever do or think or say, then it has somehow already determined before these things happen. How can we make a choice when somewhere, it is already known what choice will be made?
Additionally, if god is all knowing, then life is utterly meaningless and without meaning. Christians pride themselves on their lives devoted to god and assert that without god, existence is meaningless. However, if their god truly is omniscient, then there is no purpose to life, and here is why: If god already knows everything about you before you are born, he already knows whether you are going to heaven or hell. He knows what "sins" you will commit and exactly when and how you will die. His mind is already made up before you even came into existence! Therefore, your life is merely god letting you postpone the consequences for his predetermined judgement, based on an existence which he already knew every single second of.
Omnipresence:
As with omniscience, it is often claimed that God is omnipresent, that is, he is always everywhere. However, the Bible clearly says "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen: 1) If god was always there, how could there be a beginning? If he is infinite, then there is no beginning and no end. If he is not within the same space-time fabric that the earth and humankind is, then how could he have any influence over that fabric?
Another problem with omnipresence is the prayer factor. As theGreat Prayer Experiment suggests, prayers have no demonstrable effect on reality. If god is everywhere at once, then he easily should be able to hear everyone's prayers. I mean, if Santa can get in and out of every house in the world in one night, shouldn't god be able to hear everyone's prayers always?
Omnipotence:
God is though to be all powerful, having no limits in his ability to do something. A simple thought experiment points out a very big problem with the concept of omnipotence:
Imagine if you were to meet god, and he said you could ask him to do one thing. You ask him to create a stone so heavy, and not even he can lift it. If he successfully creates the stone, then he is not able to lift it, meaning he is not omnipotent. If he cannot create the stone, then that is a limit to his power, and he is not omnipotent.
I think this simple thought experiment alludes to the probability that nothing can be omnipotent, but that is another issue. An additionally example of the problem of omnipotence is the problem of evil. If god truly loves us, or even in a simple sense cares about his creation, and he is omnipotent, why does he allow such terrible things to occur in the world? It is impossible for him to be both omnipotent, and loving, as the existence of evil demonstrates either:
a) he does love his creations, but he cannot do anything about it because he is not omnipotent or
b) he could fix evil if he wanted, but he does not truly care about humankind enough to do so.
Of course, there is a third option, c) which is that god does not exist, which of course is my position. Regardless, the problems of omnipotence are clearly demonstrated.
Overall, this post is not designed to prove that there is no god. It is merely attempting to demonstrate that many of the characteristics that have been ascribed to god cannot possibly be true. They are logically contradicting, and unless you want to posit that god does not follow the rules of logic, then you cannot continue to describe your god with these various, conflicting traits.
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