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God is imaginary - proof 1

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To avoid being in breach of the terms of service of this forum, I'll just put a link rather than copy and paste the whole thing.
For the purpose of discussion, and maybe strengthening people's faith by facing up to doubts:

God is Imaginary - 50 simple proofs
 
That's a good website. I may not need to ask more questions because a lot of them could be addressed there.

BTW, I'd love to travel to Scotland. :)
 
Here is "proof 35"


If you think about Jesus, you realize that his biggest problem is an incredible case of myopia. We can see this myopia quite clearly as we look back at Jesus' time on earth. The obvious question that any intelligent person is forced to ask is this:
  • If Jesus is God, then why didn't Jesus use his omniscience and omnipotence to actually do something magnificent and beautiful on earth rather than squandering his "power" as he does in the Bible?
Think about all the problems that Jesus could have solved. At the very least, Jesus could have transcribed passages into the Bible that would have ended sexism, racism and slavery forever.
This "proof" has a lot of hidden assumptions. One of them is the assumption that God / Jesus can "do whatever they want to do". Even though I suggest that Christians are responsible for promulgating this idea, I do not believe it can be supported Biblically.

So this "proof" is easily challenged: If God / Jesus are not free to do anything they want to do, then the fact that Jesus left many problems unchallenged is not a "proof" that Christianity is "wrong".

Besides, and I will not get into this in the present post - there is indeed Biblical evidence to support the notion that God is not actually "free" to do whatever He wants to do.
 
Right up front, I'm admitting that I didn't read much more than the first two "proofs".

But, there seems to be a fatal flaw in their "proofing" that God doesn't exist.

Say that I am not convinced that Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world.

So I go up to Mr. Gates and say, "I want you to prove to me that you are one of the richest men in the world. Sudan is a nation in which millions of people are struggling with abject poverty and all the wars and diseases that come with poverty. So, in order to prove to me that you are one of the richest men in the world, I want you to give every man, woman and child in Sudan $1,000,000 American dollars. There are only about 42,000,000 people in Sudan, if you are as rich as some people claim then this is just chump change to you anyway. And, if every man, woman and child in Sudan was suddenly a millionaire, many conflicts would go away because there would no longer be poverty and the subsequent spreading of wealth would result in a much stronger economy in the entire region if not the entire continent of Africa. So, Bill Gates, if you don't give every man, woman and child in Sudan $1,000,000 then I refuse to believe that you are rich, because it is so smart to do this, the only way anyone would ever refuse this request is because they cannot."

If security hadn't dragged me away from Mr. Gates by the time I finished, his response to me most likely would be, "Go away, I don't even know you." Then he would go on investing his money and time as he sees fit. My lack of belief in his wealth, nor his lack of answering my demand would have no bearing on his actual wealth or what he chooses to do with it.
 
And who or what is God that you can deem God "imaginary", according to you?

P.S. I think you may benefit from reading St. Anselm's treatise on proof for God's existence.
 
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