Posted on Apr 12, 2015
SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
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What are the best arguments for or against the existence of God?

I mean an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent Supreme Being -- the eternally and necessarily extant Creator of the universe.

Atheists, Theists, Agnostics, Polytheists, Pantheists and anyone else are all welcome to weigh in!
I'm not asking what you believe, I'm asking about the best arguments for or against the existence of God.

To clarify omnibenevolence, I mean simply 'perfect goodness,' not "the quality of being kind and generous towards everyone and everything." CH (CPT) (Join to see)
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SSG Mike Schneider
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As a PhD professor, I'm trained to look at the whole equation- and science has answered most of the questions- but not all. Science can't answer the tough questions like how we came into existence- how we evolved so quickly (virtually instantly) when other things took literally millions of years. A good movie to watch would be "Is God Dead" and it really sheds light the answer. Granted, it is a drama and produced by religious people, but the arguments are still sound.
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
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"God's Not Dead"?
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TSgt Tim (lj) Littlejohn
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Does evil exist? Does it not come from satan, well than where?
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
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Evil is like darkness.
Darkness does not exist, per se. It is only the absence of light.
Evil is the absence of God.
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SSG William Jones
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CPT Wes Marsh
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Does God exist? Which gives you greater comfort, believing in a universal power greater than yourself or not?
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SGM Bill Frazer
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It is not up to the Military nor us to prove His existence. Religion (belief's) have been and should be a personal thing- you either believe or not, it's your call. Also how, who you believe in is your call. If you want to debate religion, then go to a church/mosque/synagogue, wherever and learn/debate. This should not be the site for this.
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
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CSM, if you'll look around on here, you'll find that anything and everything is discussed.
This is not intended to be a debate on religion, as the OP states, I ask not about belief, but rather about the best arguments either way.
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CPO Bill Penrod
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I preferred to work with the Marines the Army always wanted favors.....
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CPO Bill Penrod
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I guess you might say the True God is all of them.......
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SFC James Tihanyi
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Our Thomas Paine wrote some 240 years ago, "God Gave us Reason not Religion. "That is as true today as it was in the 18th century. religion evolved, has its roots, in our ancestors primitive, superstitious, uncivilized, uneducated existence. They were not able to explain simple occurrences around them, rain, sunshine, the Moon, the Sun, stars, thunder and lightening, or the menstrual cycles of the females, etc. Some, 'Control Freaks' like, 'Witch doctors', 'Shamans' and others, stepped forward and provided explanations, the ignorant masses, have embraced some of those, 'fairy tales', hence the beginnings of, "Religion". Moses, Mohamed, Joseph Smith and other, "Charlatans" followed. The major Religions, Abrahamic, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, was either forced upon the trusting, uneducated, superstitious, brainwashed masses, or they suffered because they were forbidden to join in, were ostracized. All through the ages, to this day, Religion has caused the greatest conflict and suffering for Mankind, until the 20th century when the Marxist-Bolshevik-Communist and Fascist Idealogies have clashed. Today we have Zionism, that has its roots in the, barbaric-bloody Torah- Old Testament, a hearsay mythical fairy tale, where Moses is said to have had a, 'Direct, Face to Face meeting/conversation with, Yahweh, and now we have the, "Chosen People"! What FARCE! By the way, the 'Chosen People' myth-story originated from the, "Sumerians', one of their king, 'Gilgamesh', was chosen by the Gods to be saved from a 'Great Flood' (remember, that story?), well this happened 3thousand BC., the Hebrews adopted it around 15 hundred BC, when they were in Babylonian captivity, the 'Gilgamesh Saga', was adopted by the Babylonians, the Hebrews have taken it from them! What is the origin of the name/word, 'HEBREW'? In the Old Egyptian tongue its meaning was something like, "a Trespasser", someone who wasn't a liked or desired to be, in the neighborhood! Interesting?
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
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Is that antisemitism I smell? Let's keep it on the topic of God, and away from race and religion, shall we?
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SFC James Tihanyi
SFC James Tihanyi
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I smell a Zealot of the Bolshevik-Zionist International Kosher Nostra! Using the Mythical Torah-Old Testament references to Yahweh, who gave the so called, 'Fairy Tale'-'Promised Land', to the Chosen People, therefor it is their, Yahweh given right, to murder the inhabitants of Palestine and to unleash the, "Ethnic Cleansing", of that blood soaked land. The Barbarism is hidden, behind the mythical will, of their Yahweh! it is insane and an Inhumane Diabolical reasoning!!
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SSgt Cliff Bowers
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Silly question. It is not of matter of fact, it is a matter of faith and ONLY you can answer the question.
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SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA
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I find the response silly. Of course the existence of God -- like the existence of everything else -- is a matter of fact.
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SSgt Cliff Bowers
SSgt Cliff Bowers
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To each his own
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SSG Military Police
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Well wether he exists or not we will never know. I just want to tell you a story. There was a guy named John who said he found some golden tablets and he needed magic glasses to read them. He got lots of people to believe him and they still do to this day. Now a shady guy was traveling around selling real Egyptian relics. See back in those days people didn't have the reverence for history like we do know and grave robbing was a big business. And he ran into john and John bought a scroll from the salesman. No knew how to read hyroglyphics back then so they could not interpret the scroll. Well John said he was going to do the same thing, use his magic glasses to read the scroll. So John claimed to use the magic glasses and said that the image depicted jobe sacrificing his son to God, and a lot of people believed him. Well several years later the Rosetta Stone was discovered and new scholars were produced who could fully decipher hieroglyphs. The scroll had nothing to do with what John said it did. It was just a death scroll for an Egyptian merchant with modest means. Even I. Light of this evidence there are still millions of people who still believe that John found golden tablets and used magic glasses to read them. Moral, there's a sucker born every minute.
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