The Traditional God Can Exist

I'll start without further hesitation. ===DEFINITIONS=== Omnipotent: ADJECTIVE: Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful. See Usage Note at infinite. NOUN: One having unlimited power or authority: the bureaucratic omnipotents. Omnipotent God. Used with the. [1] _________ Omniscient: ADJECTIVE: Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator. NOUN: One having total knowledge. Omniscient God. Used with the. [2] _________ Perfect: ADJECTIVE: Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind. Being without defect or blemish: a perfect specimen. Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient. Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation: She was the perfect actress for the part. Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type: a perfect circle; a perfect gentleman. Accurately reproducing an original: a perfect copy of the painting. Complete; thorough; utter: a perfect fool. Pure; undiluted; unmixed: perfect red. Excellent and delightful in all respects: a perfect day. Botany Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous. Grammar Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time. Music Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth. NOUN: Grammar The perfect tense. A verb or verb form in the perfect tense. TRANSITIVE VERB: perï¿½fectï¿½ed, perï¿½fectï¿½ing, perï¿½fects (pr-fkt) To bring to perfection or completion. {Paraphrase: Absolute best. Unable to become any better} [3] _________ Righteous: ADJECTIVE: Morally upright; without guilt or sin: a righteous parishioner. In accordance with virtue or morality: a righteous judgment. Morally justifiable: righteous anger. NOUN: Righteous people considered as a group. {Paraphrase for definition of ALL-Righteous: Absolutely righteous, moral. Perfectly righteous, moral} [4] God: NOUN: A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. The force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being. A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality. An image of a supernatural being; an idol. One that is worshiped, idealized, or followed: Money was their god. A very handsome man. A powerful ruler or despot. [5] ===ARGUMENTS=== Impossibility of Omnipotence: Being all-powerful causes clear contradictions. Stone Paradox: if God is all-powerful it means he can create a stone which he cannot lift. To not be able to lift it means he is not all-powerful but to not be able to make it also means he is not all-powerful. Omnipotence is impossible. Omnipotence is an essential part of the defining nature of God. God is impossible. Impossibility of a perfect God: Perfection means it cannot get better. Also, it would be nonsensical for a perfect God to do something which is pointless. If God was perfect it would mean he would never create anything because perfection is already obtained; things could only become worse. Creating anything would be pointless. Since things are here, it is impossible that there is a perfect God. Impossibility of a both all-righteous and all-powerful God: Suffering exists in this world. All that is pleasure is good and all that is displeasure is bad. If a God was all-righteous, it would be in his will to stop that which is bad. If God is all-powerful he would have complete power to act on his will. Since suffering exists in this world, an all-righteous and all-powerful God is impossible. Impossibility of a both all-righteous and all-knowing God: To say that God created all is to say that he sent all things into motion to what they are now. To say that he is all-knowing is to say he knew what effects it would have. There is currently suffering in the world. God would have knowingly created suffering which means he cannot be all-righteous. ===EPIC QUOTE=== Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? ~ Epicurus [341–270 B.C.] ===SOURCES=== 1. http://education.yahoo.com... 2. http://education.yahoo.com... 3. http://education.yahoo.com... 4. http://education.yahoo.com... 5. http://education.yahoo.com...