First of all let me state that I believe the Bible is a valid historic document, describing actual persons and events. But it is also a 'colored' version of theistic writers. It is not an unbiased document.Philip wrote:... But I'm curious, JH, what things do you believe make the God of the Bible makes impossible to exist?
If you believe in the biblical God, the events written in the Bible must be true. For example: how did the first writer get the knowledge of creation? The only answer is that it must have been God that told that to him (... or to the very first persons He told it to, which handed the spoken word of Him over to the following generation, until it reached the writer), for only God could have known that events. So, what if that by God Himself spoken explanation turns out not to be what science tells us? Either what was written down is not what God told (which would make everything else in the Bible questionable), or... God does not exist and what was written down was only the thoughts and interpretations of the writers, making God a figment of human non-understanding in his evolutionary origin. Having concluded this way that God is a mere figment of humanity is one aspect why I think God does not exist.
Does that make Him impossible to exist?
Concluding something is a figment makes thinking about that 'something' philosophical. Whitout hard evidence for the (non)-physical presence of an immaterial being it probably will always be philosophical.