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Why nonexistence of God is an impossibility

juvenissun

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What? No. You haven't discovered anything at all. You've merely asked a question, guessed at an answer, and called it a "discovery."

Don't pick on the term I used. Are you able to say something about the process?

To shape the property of a personal god, the term "discovery" is not that bad.
 
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Don't pick on the term I used. Are you able to say something about the process?

To shape the property of a personal god, the term "discovery" is not that bad.

Why not pick on the term? The most generous term I can think of for what you are describing is "speculating."
 
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How can you show us, that souls indeed exist?
 
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Don't pick on the term I used. Are you able to say something about the process?

To shape the property of a personal god, the term "discovery" is not that bad.

To "guess" an answer and derive a property of a divine being from that is... well, "bad" is a very weak term to describe it.

Beyond that, I fear that your "guess" is based on a faulty after-the-fact logical mistake.

- could the god make every human being have happy life forever? Yes, of course, it's god - god could do everything.
- but not every human being have happy life forever... we can see this.
- thus there must be a good reason for god not to make every human have happy life forever. God should not happy human forever life make!
 
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there would have been no universal creation and life if there has been no God, there must be something or someone that creates and supports the life, because just think what would be if there was no normal place for living in the cosmos but simply (some) dark space, how for example the souls would stray in the dark cosmos without having any normal life

Blessings
 
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Why?
 
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For me the brain represents the material link between the body and soul.

What is a soul?

If there was not even one soul ever, not even time or the void alone that the universe floats in would have existed because there would have been nothing and no one to detect their existence, and thus they would have existed for nothing.

Why does something have to be detected by a soul to exist? Why can't it simply exist?

Besides, I would rather believe that there is a God and then find out there isn't, than not believe in God and then find out there is.

I'd rather be honest with myself, come what may. If God would punish me for my honesty, that God would be evil and not worthy of my worship.


eudaimonia,

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Explain why it would be impossible to have life without a God.

Well, there might be life, just nobody to stuff the souls into that life.
 
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OK. Then let me ask you: Why should "bad" people (like Hitler) in this world also enjoy a forever happy life? If a god make them have that, is that god not fair?

You may insist that the god can do that. Fine, so this god has that property (it can not be reversed in the future, otherwise, this god is not the same god any more). However, it would have consequences. If you like to continue, we may follow your idea and see what could happen.

This is not guess or speculation. It is reasoning. Reason on what kind of god do you like to see? (don't forget the existence of a god is assumed at the very beginning). No. a god can NOT do everything. A god has properties. Once some properties are set, then the god can not violate those properties.
 
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After the fact reasoning again.

- there are bad people... we can see this.
- so god must have a good reason to create bad people who are not deserve life happy forever

And now ask yourself, is it fair to create these people? Is it fair to the people that these bad people do bad thing to? Would it be fair not to create bad people? Perhaps it would be graceful to grant happy life forever to everyone, even bad people?

With enough "guessing", you can find that this god has any attribute that you want to show he has. You can even "guess" that a god can do everything.
 
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Before you asked me the question, you have just introduced another property to this god: this god created ALL people on the earth, good and bad.

Are you sure you want that god to have this property? Don't forget every property assigned WILL have serious consequences.

Now this god has two properties already: 1) make ALL people have eternal happy life. 2) create (and continue to create) people, good and bad.

Do you like to change something about this god? Or you want to ditch them and start it all over? If you like to keep them, then I will consider your questions.
 
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There´s something profoundly funny about a believer asking a non-believer to define his god for him.
 
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We can do this as long as you wish... assigning properties, making conclusions from them, debating the validity of these conclusions... but in every single case, in every single property that you "discover", there will be the (completely valid) objection "and maybe this is completely wrong, because this god does simply not exist".

But I fear you will have to continue to make up... err, "discover"... more properties of God on your own.

I will stay here at the completely valid objection.
 
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juvenissun

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There´s something profoundly funny about a believer asking a non-believer to define his god for him.

Nothing is funny. This is an academic brain storming.
It has a great purpose: Any established religion is not simple at all. One either believe, or not. Don't try to argue on any of them.
 
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