A Philosophical Argument Against God

No Christian apologetic would ever say that they can prove god’s existence. It is impossible. God cannot even be uniformly defined by person in the same congregation, much less across denomination, faction, or religion.

Hence the explanation or definition of god becomes inundated with terms and phrases like "belief”, “feeling”, “in my experience”, “metaphysical”, and so on.

The problem comes in the concept of definition itself. Once something is defined it is immediately restrained by the very words that seek to describe it. So, the more people’s definition one tries to include in a grand definition of god forces that definition to become broader and broader even though to each person it is a very personal god.

The most used general definition is an omnipotent being overseeing the universe which set all of existence in motion.

In texts however god is always described as a personality. The bible refers to god as masculine, all powerful, all knowing, just, loving, merciful, and sometimes wrathful. The Christian god has many names, Jehova Gyra, El Shaddai, El Gabor, and more. The Christian god even has nicknames like the alpha and omega, the I am, and so on. The Christian god is most definitely seen as a singular personality.

However, personalities are defined by traits that they have which implicitly states that there are traits that they do not have. If someone is known as kind that person is implicitly considered to not be mean. A funny person cannot therefore be dull, a wise person cannot be stupid. Any person can have moments of any trait, but overall definitions require many traits to be chosen one over the other.

The question becomes simple, if god be everything, how can he be defined as anything? How can everything include benevolence but not malevolence, love and not hatred? To be everything requires both sides, requires balance.

God cannot be one side, cannot be wholly pure, wholly perfect, wholly positive. Nothing in nature to my knowledge is absolutely pure. If there be a god then that god would, by definition of everything, have to be the devil too.

It’s just an idea, just a question. Just something to think about.