Existence Of God

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My argument falls under the issues of religion and faith because the main question asked is, to believe or not to believe? The problem I see concerning this issue is not whether we believe in God, but if He truly exists. The only example I can think of to illustrate this problem would be to say, “What if?” What if we believe and it turns out that there is nothing after death or what if we believe but we find that faith has counted for nothing? The main people involved in this argument would then be people who do not believe in God on the basis that God created everything and some of the things He created were bad. The thing that is on the line is our immortal souls. Is He there and was religion worth it? Myself and atheists who may read this paper must look broader than they may have ever looked before at any other time so that this problem can be truly seen without preconceived notions and bias. I will try to approach this argument from a purely factual point of view. Now my claim can be simply stated as the fact that God does not exist.
The key terms and phrases that need defining would be God and existence. Webster’s Dictionary defines God as, “the Supreme Being; ruler of life and the universe.” This states that God is omnipotent and controls all that goes on within his universe. The next most important term would be existence. Webster’s Dictionary defines existence as, “the state or fact of having being especially independent of human consciousness and as contrasted with nonexistence.” This definition would then infer that existence is reality as opposed to appearance or a sentient or living being. With these definitions in mind, my claim then becomes the ruler of life and the universe does not have being especially independent of human consciousness and as contrasted with nonexistence.
The audience for this argument would then mainly be theists. The problem that they would foresee that God does exist and His ex...