by Smithy

Created on: March 16, 2010

Before we can discuss the existence of a 'thing' we must first define it, to a Christian God is eternal, an all-powerful, and he created everything. He created all the laws of nature and can change anything by an act of will. He is all-good, all-loving, and perfectly just. He is a personal God who experiences all of the emotions a human does. He is all-knowing. He sees everything past, present and future. What did God do during that eternity before he created everything? If God created everything that means he must of created himself before he could create the rest of the universe.

If God was all that existed back then, which there would be no then because time would never of existed to begin with, so what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete-it needs nothing else. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.

God is omniscient. A perfectly compassionate being who creates beings which he knows are doomed to suffer is impossible. How could God create us if there is so much violence in the world today? He would of seen this violence and as he is pure and void of evil, this would make it impossible for him to create humans knowing the suffering that would occur directly related to his creation.

God is perfectly just, and yet he sentences the imperfect humans he created to infinite suffering in hell for finite sins. Clearly, a limited offense does not warrant unlimited punishment. God's sentencing of the imperfect humans to an eternity in hell for a mere mortal lifetime of sin is infinitely more unjust than this punishment. The absurd injustice of this infinite punishment is even greater when we consider that the ultimate source of human imperfection is the God who created them. A perfectly just God who sentences his imperfect creation to infinite punishment for finite sins is impossible.

The Bible is supposedly God's perfect Word. It contains instructions to humankind for avoiding the eternal fires of hell. How wonderful and kind of this God to provide us with this means of overcoming the problems for which he is ultimately responsible for. The all-powerful God could have, by a mere act of will, eliminated all of the problems we humans must endure, but instead, in his infinite

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