Assignment on God and his Existence

Running head: GOD AND HIS EXISTENCE
GOD AND HIS EXISTENCE
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1GOD AND HIS EXISTENCE
As stated by Naylor (2018), an important topic which had formed the central lacuna of
numerous debates as well as scholarly research work over the years can be attributed to the
aspect of existence of God. Ankerberg and Burroughs (2018) are of the viewpoint that more than
90% of the people of the world are the followers of one form of religion or the other and thereby
worship a God despite the fact that they have never seen God or for that matter have any
concrete evidence regarding the existence of the same. More importantly, there are many people
who in the present times although do not believe in the physical existence of God yet believe in
the presence of a spiritual energy which controls the different aspects of the universe along with
the lives of the living beings. However, the lack of proof or evidence regarding the physical
existence of God, the topsy-turvy or for that the semi-dystopian nature of the contemporary
world, Nietzsche’s theory of genealogy of morals and others clearly indicate that God is merely a
figment of the imagination of the people rather than something which actually exists. The
purpose of this paper is to argue that God does not exist through the usage of the above
mentioned three arguments.
The majority of the people blindly believe in God and the ideas propounded by Him
yet none of the individuals in the entire history of mankind had been able to see God. Monaghan
(2019) is of the viewpoint that the primary objective behind the creation of the entity of religion
as well as God was to civilize the human beings by way of forcing the people to follow the
different rules, practices or for that matter the stipulations of the religions. Adding to this, Mugg
(2016) has noted that almost all the religions of the world have claimed that their God is the
supreme one and there have either denied the existence of the other Gods or have stated that they
subservient to their God. More importantly, it had also been seen that within almost all the
different religions of the world some of the saints or the ardent followers have claim to see God

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yet none of them have been able to offer any concrete proof regarding the same or shed any
insightful light regarding the appearance, features or the other aspects of the God. Furthermore, a
close analysis of the different religions of the world indicate the fact that the stories, the teaching,
the practices and others which they ask the followers to ardently follow are almost similar in
nature yet the followers related to the different religions of the world had been fighting with each
other for centuries just to prove the fact that the religion as well as the God that they follow is the
superior one (Wielenberg, 2017). In this relation, it needs to be said that to determine the actual
presence of a particular thing or an individual it is important to have a concrete knowledge
regarding the concerned individual or the thing. However, in the particular context of God it is
seen that the knowledge of the common people regarding Him is limited to the information
which is being offered by the scriptures or the religious books and apart from that people do not
have any other information about Him (Vallicella, 2018). In addition to these, some of the most
devoted followers have argued the fact that in order to presence of God one needs to have deep
faith on Him and also share an emotional bond with Him (Dreyer, 2018). However, the question
still remains how is an individual likely to have blind faith on an individual about whom
everything that he or she knows is derived from the scriptures, forget about forming an emotional
bond with him. Thus, in the absence of any concrete evidence regarding the existence of God it
can be said that God does not exist.
The topsy-turvy world or for that matter the semi-dystopian world in which the
contemporary people live in and the kinds of evils that they have to face makes the idea
regarding the existence of a benevolent as well as a loving God completely untrustworthy. Kraay
(2017) is of the viewpoint that an important similarity among the different religions of the world
is the fact that they articulate the fact that their God is the creator and destroyer of life and all the