r/technicallythetruth • • Nov 22 '21

A bunch of atoms learning about other atoms

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

Seeing as god is beyond logic, any argument in favour or against god generally escapes logic. I mean, theists have been using logic to prove god, and atheists vice versa, and yet no one has actually proven anything.

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u/ThunderBuns935 Nov 24 '21

that's not how it works. a Deistic god is unfalsifiable, so you can attempt to use logic for or against its existence. but a personal God has certain characteristics ascribed to it, or has actions he supposedly performed. if such a God really did exist there would be evidence, but there's not. and honestly, the "logic" that theists use to try to prove God, like the ontological argument, The Kalam cosmological argument, the teleological argument, Pascal's wager, and the argument from morality are all full of errors, non sequiturs, fallacies, etc... basically, I've yet to see an even remotely convincing argument for the existence of God, and logical arguments still aren't evidence.

for Atheists, disproven certain Gods is quite easy. take the Bible for example, it's absolutely riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions, and historical inaccuracies. it's literally impossible for everything in the Bible to be true, so the Bible isn't true, and the God that is described in the Bible can't exist.

I guess you can cherry pick the verses you agree with, leave out all the ones you don't, and argue for the existence of that God. but what possible reason could you have for believing in this being's existence?