Halcon
The fact that God doesn't align with what you believe God should be does not mean he doesn't exist.
Sorry for the misunderstanding Halcon.
I never said God doesn’t exist. What I said was;
Is there an All Knowing Benevolent, Omnipotent God?
I'd argue that nature of life on Earth and the course of human history makes it impossible to accept, that a "perfect, benevolent, omnipotent, omniscient God, who is ruler of the universe. and originator of all life"……...Actually Exists.
I actually do consider that there was or perhaps there is a Creator.
But not one like Christians describe. Which according to them, God is the biblical God YHWH or Jehovah. And that he is Totally Perfect, and the epitome of Love and Compassion.
On the other hand, there’s actually a lot of possibilities of who or what the Creator is or was.
1. The Creator could have been a Being who was powerful enough, and intelligent enough to create life, but not immortal. And he created life on earth and then died. Leaving us to fend for ourselves and figure it out.
That actually would make sense and explain a lot. Scientist that study human population have said that in 1AD there was about 200 million people in the entire world. There was far less before AD. But around 1800 AD humanity finally reached 1 Billion.
Why did it take thousands and thousands of years before humanity reached 1 Billion? Because the trail of humanity has been one of ignorance, trial and error. Humanity didn’t get a “Manual” on how to live and avoid death. Our history is fill with millions of humans starving to death, freezing to death, being burned alive, falling to our death, eaten by animals, dying of disease, and so on.
Little by little humans had to learn by trial and error on how to survive in a harsh world. How long did it take to finally figure out how to make fire? How many lives did it take to learn how to swim? How to build shelter and move out of the caves?
We have been on our own from the very beginning. But something changed in the 1800s. We started discovering technology, medicine, anatomy, industrialized farming, electricity, plumbing, steel, and what that accomplished is that humans weren’t dying anymore needlessly. We weren’t freezing to death. We were not starving as much, we were not dying as much as in the past because medicine was making big strides in curing the sick.
But that’s not all. We are finally getting close to creating life. About eleven years ago humans created a liver with stem cells and put it in a woman and saved her life. Or was it a pancreas? Can’t remember exactly but regardless, Humans are learning how to create hearts, eyes, lungs, and other important processes that bring us closer to being Creators.
In one of my College Classes, the professor told us to write several possibilities of who Created life. There were literally hundreds of possibilities written by all us students.
Here’s one possibility shown in a movie years back, when I was still a kid growing up in the jw faith;
The Creator was like Jesus, he sacrificed his life that other might live.