CHRISTIANS WORSHIP A GOD THAT CANNOT BE??

ONLINE READERS COMMENT: Christians worship a god that cannot be

Dear Editor,

Last Sunday morning, I was listening to a Sunday morning church service and I must admit that I was a bit taken aback by the fiery sermon and the ecstatic and noisy responses from the church congregation. Though it may be admirable that Christians are so passionate about their God, I am afraid they are really singing praises to a god that cannot be.

It’s not just that there is no good evidence for the existence of their god that must be the reason why some Christians have lost faith, the evidence against god’s existence is even more convincing.

Perhaps the best evidence against the existence of the Christian God is this reality of ours, or at least, what it is supposed to be. Those of us who believe that this universe of ours began with the big bang is proof that God started it all better think again. There are several reasons why such an argument cannot be true.

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If the universe is supposed to be everything and everywhere, then Christians must have a hard time trying to place their god, or indeed anything, outside of it. Everything, by definition also includes nothing – whatever that could be. So too is everywhere, which by definition, also includes nowhere, which again, could be anywhere. As such, God, seeing that he is at least something, must be a part of the universe, which is everything.
However, if the universe is supposed to mean “our reality”, then there may be something outside of it, and as such, Christians could start having some hope that, in at least some way, God may exists after all. However, if God is supposed to be eternal, then that hope for the Christian cannot be a good one, for several reasons.

Seeing that we are always told that all space and time began with our reality, which some call the universe, one predicament for the Christian would be to justify how God could have done anything outside of time. For instance, how much time did God use to start the big bang, seeing that there was none before it?

But there are more worries for the Christian. Even if we were to allow for him to have started the big bang outside of time, he could not have been starting that forever. We are told that the start of the big bang has already happened. As such, the cause of that could not be eternal, for it that was the case; then the cause of the big bang would have been eternal too, which would make the big bang eternal, which in turn would make the universe itself eternal.

The Christian would have an even bigger problem trying to string a list of temporary prior causes for the big bang, as eventually he would find himself with an endless list. Then the Christian would eventually realize that the endless list wouldn’t have a start at all.

So, the big worry for the Christian would be to justify how an eternal cause could cause anything that is not eternal, like our universe.

Come to think of it, maybe it is because that mystery is so big why Christian leaders spend so much time preaching such fiery sermons to get their congregations so worked up. No point burdening them about a problem for which there could be no solution. Better to make the solution for the problem and consider the problem solved.

Michael A Dingwall