Case Against God - Part I

Case Against God – Part I

There is a massive amount of information regarding the case against deities. There are long arguments between theists and atheists that go through exhaustive detail about philosophies and ethical points.

I am not going to do that. There is plenty of information widely available out there if you want to research the topic. I have no doubt that there are thousands of pages of information on the topic – and all text no graphics.

My premise in this case is quite simple. My philosophy is that people should ask questions and find their own answers and be ethically honest with themselves in those answers. The simple fact that people come out with different answers should not be threatening. The only thing that is threatening to anyone is when answers of a specific type are held by people that believe that no other answers are acceptable.

If you have comments – I request that you stay to the narrow scope of the question.

And here is my first question:
Belief in God is strongly tied to religious writing. In the case of Christianity it is tied to the bible. For Judaism there are the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud. For Muslims it is the Koran. The question is simple. The god described in all cases is described with having certain capabilities. Omnipotence, omniscience and is transcendent of humanity. If god has the capabilities of omnipotence and is omniscient how come none of the written documents allegedly produced by god or by humans through the hand of god displays any more knowledge of the universe than people who were living in the times of those writings?
Read the religious writings. Do they provide any evidence that the writer contained any special knowledge that could only have come from an omniscient being that is independently verifiable? If not do we then have to question the authenticity of the writers in being inspired by an omniscient being?

As I indicated in the beginning of this blog – any comments on this particular blog need to stay to the narrow scope of the question. Specifically, is there any evidence in the religious documents of knowledge beyond the knowledge of humanity at the time of its writing?

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