Aside comments: 1) You remarked that
you were going to take an agnostic point of view in your essay, but all of your
arguments are from the Christian tradition. 2) Surly is a good word and it means
"angry and disrespectful." I don't think you meant to use this word. 3)
Pronouns referring to God are capitalized. 4) Pray is a verb. Prayer is a noun. 5) The possessive form of "they" is "their". There refers to a place (He went over there)
The next argument I am going to touch on is one of the most well known, commonly used and effective arguments arguing that God does not exist. This is the argument of
suffering, people use this in the terms of "If God exists then why is there
suffering in the world?", "If God is all powerful and all loving then why does He allow suffering?" and "If good (?God) is real then why does he allow
conflict over religion and beliefs" these are all just statements that I have
come up with but they have been used to try to argue God's not existing. Maybe
one of the reasons for people using this argument is because it is one that is
easy to use. It seems that there is
evidence for it, God is meant to be all loving and all powerful but if He is then why would he not stop all the
horrific violence and conflict going on around the world? Surely if someone is
all loving they would not be able to sit back and watch people killing each
other. In fact if He were
all loving He shouldn't really be
able to watch people hurting each other or being horrible to one another but
all this would add up if God was just all loving because what can He do about it, it is out of His power He can do nothing but that's not the case God is supposedly all
powerful so He should be able to
stop it all with a click of his fingers, now it could be that He just chooses not to, but of
course He is all loving so that
cannot be true and that is why atheists are saying this must be a reason that
God does not exist because it seems like it should all adds up. (This sentence is too long, and I did not
try to fix it. You write a lot of run-on sentences and repeat your ideas. Try
to write sentences that are shorter and to the point.) But this theory does not simply rule out
the idea of God. Yes it might be a quite convincing argument but maybe
suffering is there for a reason. Of
course God does not want people to die but if everybody just died of old age
the world would just over populated
and if the human race could not suffer then we probably would not be where we
are today. Maybe we suffer for our
own good. In a way suffering teaches us it makes us appreciate life so maybe God
is there and just allows suffering
for a reason. But this is another argument that will go on being argued out by
both theists and atheists.
The next argument
is another argument against the existence
of God, this is if and when people
go to pray to God, how come a lot of the time their prayers are not
answered and when they are , could
it not just be a coincidence? God is
(this not referring to all gods and goddesses) supposedly everywhere, all
around as so surely when we talk to
him he can hear us. God is also
meant to be all loving in that case surely
if he can hear us he should answer us and
help us out. However nice this
would be, a lot of the time it is
not true, a lot of the time God does not answer us. Maybe this means that
he cannot hear us and maybe this could mean that God does not exist. But
countering that is the fact that there are those people who believe that their prayers have been answered and what they asked for or prayed for
came true. So that must mean the
previous statement before proves nothing. Countering that, you could say, "Well, why would God answer some and not
others, maybe those people who believe that their prayers have been
answered have just got lucky or what they prayed for just came about by chance." This is stating God doesn't exist or at
least he cannot be everywhere and cannot be all loving if He answers some people and not others. Answering that statement you
could say that God cannot simply answer everyone at once because of course
there are millions of people all praying at one time. To counter that you might
say "Well God is suppose to be all
powerful and if He's all powerful
answering a million prayers at once
should be easy." The argument does
not end there but unfortunately I'm going to have to finish that argument now.