In other words, if you sit and think about who God is supposed to be,
you realize that such a being is impossible. Ridiculous, in fact.
If you consult the dictionary, here is the first definition of God that you will find:
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"A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and
ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in
monotheistic religions."
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"The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or,
being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly,
they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil
and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not,
than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then
they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both
able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?"
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Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it
will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man of you, if
his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a
fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is
in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Here is another way to understand the impossibility of God. If you look at the definition of God, you can see that he is defined as the "originator and ruler of the universe". Why does the universe need an originator -- a creator? Because, according to religious logic, the universe cannot exist unless it has a creator. A believer will say, "nothing can exist unless it is created." However, that satement immediately constructs a contradiction, because we must then wonder who created God. For a believer the answer to that is simple -- "God is the one thing that does not need a creator. God is timeless and has always existed." How can it be that the everything MUST have a creator, while God must NOT? The contradiction in the definition of God is palpable.
As soon as your think about the concept of a perfect, omnipotent, omniscient being, you realize the impossibility of the concept. That impossibility is yet another way to see that God is imaginary.
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