Can Judeo-Christian-Islamic God exist?
When I was growing up in a little village in Bangladesh, my parents used to remind me that there is a supernatural being in the sky who created all of us and everything else in the world. My young mind, without questioning accepted it as true simply on the basis that �my parents said so�. It is just a simple example of childhood indoctrination. I am quite sure that almost all of you have experienced it. I have heard about god from childhood and keep hearing about him. So far I have never experience god as of yet, is it because he does not exist or he does not want to communicate with me? Whatever the answer might be I inclined to ask is it possible for god to exist? By god, I mean Judeo-Christian-Islamic god.
You may say that they are not the same thing. One of the common misconceptions is that people tend to distinguish among the three monotheistic religions in terms of rituals, and say that they are different. When Judaism, Christianity and Islam claim that there is only one god, they essentially denying the existence of any gods but one. Therefore, they cannot possibly talk about three different gods. The biggest difference among these religions is that each claims that their way of knowing god is the true one. Let us say that I have no idea about god and my parents never taught me anything about it, then how would I know that I�m choosing the right path to know god. I would probably conclude that each of these religions 33.3333% probability of being true which is pretty low to bet my destiny on.
According to the world�s three institutionalized monotheistic religions, god is defined as omnipotent, omnipresent, indestructible supernatural entity. These attributional definition simply claims what characteristics god possibly posses without explaining the essence of god. He is omnipotent which means that god can do anything. Really? Can god make it true that He never existed? Can god make it true that 2+2=5? The classical question about god�s omnipotence gets it all, can god create a rock that is so heavy that he cannot lift it. The amazing thing about this question is that the answer always leads to the conclusion that god cannot be omnipotent. In other words, it is logically impossible for god to be all-powerful. Can he be omniscient or omnipresent then? It simply means that can god see all events before they happen. If god is omnipresent, then He must have known that Hitler was going kill more than 6 million people, and he still let Hitler to commit atrocities. It really strikes me that god knowingly and intentionally let evil like Hitler to come in existence. Initially one may think that there�s no problem for god being omnipresent. However, it is mutually inconsistent with God being transcendent. A being that exist outside of time and space and exist everywhere�cannot be true at the same time. Therefore, it is logically impossible for Judeo-Christian-Islamic God who posses previously mentioned attributes to exist.
If there was really a god who knows everything, then he must have known that people will question his existence in the future. If that god is rational, then he must have provided with empirically verifiable evidence for his existence. Alas, such evidence nowhere to be found. Of course, theists will tell you that you must have faith in god. The thing theists seem not to get is that faith cannot make things true. I have super duper strong faith that the sky is green. I will have true belief if the sky is actually green, otherwise it will be false. Important thing to notice that having a strong faith does not make the sky green. Many people claim that they know god because they have extremely strong faith. It is same thing as an eight-year-old Harry Potter fan who believes that the story is real. When someone tells you that he or she knows something because of faith, you know that they are talking garbage. The Judeo-Christian-Islamic god does not and cannot possibly exist.
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