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These are some arguments I might make against the existence of God:

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  • The problem of evil, or the Epicurean paradox
  • If God preordains people to eternal life in heaven, or total damnation in hell, in the beginning, how does he choose whom? (see below) (Calvinist only)
  • If God is said to be omnipotent, does He not have the power to read one's minds, yet we still must pray aloud for Him to hear?

[edit] Detail of the Predestination Problem

Taking from this excerpt from John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion:

...God by his eternal and immutable [unchangeable] counsel determined once [and] for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction...this counsel is founded on his free mercy,...while those he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless...judgement.

—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvinists learn that God preordains the actions of all mankind. Thus He chooses who will go to heaven or hell from the beginning. Yet, how does he choose whom? The only way (as I see it) He can decide is at random, since people haven't done anything good or bad yet (since we don't even exist yet, and He decides anyway).

Please make your points against/for those above on the talk page, and please sign using --~~~~. If you are not logged in, sign " 0.0.0.0 " or " 255.255.255.255 ", imitating IP addresses. Please don't use "Anon", because I know there's a user called Anon . Also, don't use " Anon126 ", because you-know-why. :D

I understand these arguments may be naïve. Plese contact me about this on the talk page