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Actually, god, as a concept is contradictory. Like saying god is beyond description and understanding. If so, then there should be no concept of it. And there are the old contradictions inclusive to the attributes of god. E.g. if god is all powerful then it can create a being more powerful than itself (it can do anything). But if it can create something more powerful than itself then it can't be all powerful, so it must not be able to create a being more powerful than itself. But if it can't do that then there is something it can't do, so it's not all powerful. And you could do the same thing with omniscience. The problem is not with the reasoning but the concept behind it.
Also, the idea of the supernatural is contradictory. We live in the natural world. By definition, if it's in our world it's part of the natural world. So the supernatural, as something outside the natural world by definition, is not part of the natural world. By definition. And since the natural world constitutes everything, then the supernatural doesn't really exist.
God is a kind a conceptual game rooted in fallacious ideas that, upon analysis, are really just nonsense.

towkneed 7 June 13
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"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

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Also god is supernatural = above or outside of nature. As creatures of the natural world we can inherently have no information about what is not part of the natural world. Any assertions about supernatural beings and realms are indistinguishable from imagination -- and in fact, can only BE imagination. So the supernatural itself is a useless and illogical concept. Since deities are dependent on the supernatural world to explain their total undetectability, they are themselves useless and illogical constructs.

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I concur!

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Its about Definition, God must be defined before you can have a rational discussion of God.

gater Level 7 June 13, 2018
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I know but you are forgetting that today the apologists claim god is in another dimension. Look at it this way. Look at dimensions as fish bowls. God can jump out of his fish bowl and jump into ours, do what ever he decides, then go back to his fishbowl without leaving a single trace. That also explains why we see no evidence of god - on earth, in the sky, or in anyone's fishbowl.

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Yes

EdEarl Level 8 June 13, 2018
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