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.