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"The idea of God with all his traditional attributes is a reasonable one to have" Do you agree?

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GCSE Existence of God

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"The idea of God with all his traditional attributes is a reasonable one to have" Do you agree?

The idea of God being all loving, caring, omniscient, omnipresent and so on is a reasonable one to have, as it has been attached to God for years and years. Before science, nobody even questioned God's attributes, just accepted them for what they were, but with the rise of science, talking about God attributes brings about problems.

When science started to question God's attributes, they asked the questions, which religions found hard to answer, "if God is omnipotent, can he make a rock big enough, that he cant pick it up?" God is supposed to be omnipotent. If He is omnipotent, then He can create a rock so big that He can't pick it up. If He cannot make a rock like this, then He is not omnipotent. If He can make a rock so big He can't pick it up, then He isn't omnipotent either. Either way demonstrates that God cannot do something. Therefore God is not omnipotent. Therefore God does not exist.

Is this logical? A little. However, the problem is that this

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