The Powerless God
 

    The arguments

    We've all heard it, "god is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnibenevolent."
    Everything you thought you knew about god's powers is wrong. Firstly, there is the
    small problem of the naming of abilities, by saying a entity has unlimited power in
    specific field of expertise limits it's power in all others. Placing simple human
    definitions on a non-human entity cannot properly define the deity.

    The core of the issue deals with the actual characteristics. One says that god is all
    powerful, all knowing, all seeing, and all loving. The easiest way to break down this
    whole belief is to point out theses characteristics are contradictory to each other.

    Omnipotence: Is god all-powerful? Here is a simple test of Omnipotence: "Can god
    create a boulder he cannot move?" Omnipotence is self contradictory. The irresistible
    force vs. an immovable object, shows that Omnipotence is impossible.

    Omnibenevolence: Can god be all-loving? The fact that evil exists in the world shows
    that god is not very loving. But if he just so happened to be this loving god many xians
    claim him to be, then he either doesn't know evils exists or isn't capable of destroying
    evil. The characteristic of Omnibenevolence contradicts either Omniscience or
    Omnipotence or both!

    Omniscience/Omnipresence: Can god be all knowing/all seeing? Once again god
    shows us that his unwillingness to eliminate evil (assuming he is Omnipotent), means
    he must not know of the existence of evil.

    [Summary]

    IF: Omnipotent:: NOT: Omnipresent/Omnibenevolent/Omniscient.
    IF: Omnibenevolent:: NOT: Omnipotent/Omnipresent/Omniscient
    IF: Omnipresent/Omniscient:: NOT: Omnipotent/Omnibenevolent
    IF: Omnibenevolent:: NOT: Omnipresent/Omniscient/Omnipotent
    If: Omnipotent/Omnipresent/Omnibenevolent/Omniscient:: CANNOT: exist!
    IF NOT: Omnipotent or Omnipresent or Omnibenevolent or Omniscient:: NOT: a god!

    "The evidence"

    (This is evidence only if you assume the 'holy babble' is a valid reference source)

    God doesn't show any Omniscience, Omnibenevolence, Omnipresence, Omnipotence
    as so many xians will claim he has, the first book of the bible shows god's inability to
    know everything and see everything and of course love everything!

    [gen3:8-13] (I'll sum up these few verses for you, it is a bit lengthy). Adam and Eve
    eat of the tree and see that they are naked and make fig-leaf-clothing, they dash off into
    the forest to hide, god calls out and asks where they are (why would an
    all-knowing/all-seeing deity not know where the only two humans on the entire earth
    are?), Adam says he is naked and hid from god due to fear, god asks who told you,
    you were naked? (maybe his omniscience is malfunctioning or something, maybe fig
    leaves are to god as kryptonite is to superman?), god FINALLY catches on and asks if
    they ate of the tree, Adam says yes and blames it on Eve, Eve blames it on the snake
    and then all hell breaks loose (actually god blows a fuse and goes on a rampage
    punishing the stupid humans). He isn't so smart as far as the bible is concerned, maybe
    god was just playing dumb or something, who knows!?

    Besides his power-limitations, god also displays a lack of omnibenevolence right
    here in chapter 3 of genesis, during the "fall of man." I've been watching over this
    little tussle that's been going on and made some interesting observations.

    God's anger eventually leads to several punishments to the bad guys:

    ok then in [gen3:14] god curses the serpent to crawl on his belly and eat dust... have
    you seen serpents eating much dust lately, my snakes eat rats and mice...?

    [gen3:16] "unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
    conception; in sorrow thou shallot bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy
    husband, and he shall rule over the." here is one of god's curses, the suffering of
    women (I don't see many women today being too damn obedient to their husbands,
    perhaps god is just getting tired of enforcing his own rules. Plus how is it that all
    women get punished with suffering, just because of a fruit-munching idiot? Just
    remember, if your wife happens to die from child birth complications it is Eve's fault
    for eating fruit!).

    Of course Adam doesn't get away scott free either, he was an accomplice in the first
    thought crime (how dare they wish to become smart!). [gen3:17-19] Adam is cursed to
    eat of the ground and eat thorns and thistles (have you eaten your thorns and thistles
    today? huh? HUH?!!!! If not you are disobeying god!) and of course he must eat herbs
    (is god commanding Adam to smoke pot? isn't that wrong? I think it's wrong to smoke
    pot, but god said to so hey, what can you do...?). finally he curses man to eventually
    die and return to the earth and become dust since we are made of dust (speaking of
    dust, maybe I just forgot, but which one of our chemistry/biology/anatomy books
    states: "the human body is composed of 100% dust?" I thought we were like 70%
    water and various combinations of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen, along with
    many other less abundant chemicals).

    God finally catches on after the whole incident is over and decides to place some
    cherubim in from of his other favorite tree "tree of life." (don't want those disobedient
    humans to live long happy lives right?). But in all his infinite wisdom, shouldn't god
    have foreseen "the fall" and maybe he could just place his little cherubim in front of
    both trees and stop the whole messy business of eternal human suffering.... but no, it's
    not god's job to keep a close eye on his creations, it's man's fault for being created so
    stupid and ignorant of good an evil, it's our fault god didn't instill morals in us at
    creation! does anyone else see the flaws here?

    Later on in the bible we can find god unable to perform certain tasks, if a god cannot
    perform any task then he is not Omnipotent, right? The following quotes tell us god
    can do anything:

    [Jer.32:17] Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy
    great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
    [Jer.32:27] Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard
    for me?
    [Mt.19:26, Mk.10:27] With God all things are possible."

    But what about:
    [Jg.1:19] And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the
    mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had
    chariots of iron. (wow, god can't move iron chariots huh? Is iron really that strong, I
    mean even I can take out a iron chariot, just have to lob an anti-tank round at it and
    there will be nothing left... I'm more powerful that god!)
    [Mk.6:5] And he could there do no mighty work.
    [Heb.6:18] It was impossible for God to lie.

    Does this sound like an all-powerful, supreme being to you, I'd have an easier time
    believing in the existence of Santa Claus than believing in this pitiful excuse for a god.