Well, more specifically, this argument proves why a judgmental God (such as the Christian God and most others) cannot logically exist. I’ll stick to Christianity for this, but the logic can be used for other religions.
The Bible states that God has a plan for everyone. It also states that God is infinite, and that he knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Of course he does: he is God (I’m using “he” for the sake of convenience).
If God knows everything, then God knows how your life will unfold. And yet he proposes to have a plan for you. Well, logically speaking, that plan cannot be different from the life you realize. Why would God have a plan for an individual that he knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, would not be realized? Obviously, he wouldn’t. Thus, if you go to heaven, it was God’s plan for you; if you go to hell, it was his plan too; if a fetus is aborted, well, God never had any plan for that fetus. In essence, you are determined to go to heaven or hell before you’re even born.
Some have tried to refute this by downgrading God (and contradicting their own scripture) by proposing that perhaps with free will, God does not know which choices you will make. If this is true, then God has limited knowledge. If he has limited knowledge, how can God even know that he is God? There could be a God above God, in which case he is not God at all. Furthermore, if God does not know everything, then the universe essentially exists above him. If God is not equal to or above the universe, he is an entity within it. If he is an entity within the universe, he is no different than a human being, and has no more right to be a moral authority than anyone.
Another possible refute might involve parallel universes, but this still falls short. God would still need to know how life would unfold in each of the infinite universes, and thus people would still be bound to their fate. Furthermore, the notion of parallel universes essentially shreds up the soul: an infinite number of person A would go to heaven, and an infinite number of person A would go to hell.
Think about it.
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