Why God almost certainly does not exist #1

I have many reasons to doubt the existence of God. Many strong, plausible arguments can be posited as to the non-existence of God, far more than can be put forward for the affirmative.

Thus, I thought I would put forward one of my theories on God's non-existence. I'm sure many more will follow....

This is quite brief, and quite simple. I argue that the bible itself is proof that God does not exist. How can this possibly be when the bible is the word of God I hear you ask? Simple: because it is supposed to be the word of God, this in effect proves that it is not.

The bible contains only information that was known at the time it was recorded. What I mean by this is that those who wrote the bible under so-called divine instruction, or whatever it was, recorded only the information that was known by them at the time. So, the bible is a reflection of human knowledge as it was at the time it was written, which is what we would expect of any book written at any point in time.

Now, my argument is that as the bible contains only the knowledge of the time in which it was written, it simply cannot be the word of God.

So much of what was written about in the bible has been superseded by our current knowledge. I won't go into specifics, but much of what was written is so patently false. So, if we take the bible to be the word of god, an all-powerful, all-KNOWING God, why does the information it contain only reflect the knowledge of the time? Surely God would know that illness and disease is caused by micro-organisms such as bacteria and viruses. Surely he would also know that the world is round, and that it consists of more regions than just the Middle East. Yet, none of this is mentioned in the bible.

Clearly, the bible was written by mortal people, as the knowledge it contains is a reflection of mortal knowledge in a given point in time. If it was the word of God, there would have to be some evidence, some information that simply was not and could not have been known by the people of that time. But there is none. Nothing. Not one single piece of information that would indicate the person writing it was all-knowing.

Therefore, the bible was written by mere mortals, with no divine influence or intervention of any kind.

The bible tells me so.