So the more we understand about the unknown, the less there is of a god.
edit: Also, you’re falling into the illogical fallacy of “I don’t know, therefore god”.
And your statement: “And as there will always be unknowns as everything is never all knowable, God will always exist.” It’s simply incorrect to take that position in the first place as to say there will always be unknowns is a presupposition you’ve created to support a circular argument.
To me God is defined by my unknowns. Teachings of God are positive actions and thoughts to get through life. As philosophers have progressed their words have been “taken as the word of God” as they defined what they didnt know before.
Salvation was delivered in a dark time in the middle east when Jesus came along and taught forgiveness in a time of eye for an eye, and endless fighting.
I use Jesus here as a relatable figure of God. There are many relatable forms of “God” in the world.
Now excuse me while I go and say a prayer to the footy gods
I don’t think its up to atheists to disproved that god exists. Live and let live. I can respect that people believe in god. Can’t understand it but don’t really have to.
Paul was the one that hailed him as the Son of God. And evidence of his writings didnt happen until the idea of Jesus spread to Greece, the home of the thinker(mainly because the thinker writes) .
You don’t have too. That’s where rational thought loses it. The teachings of Jesus surfaced 200 years after his death to sell his greatness in southern europe.
But his ideas. The simple ideas of forgiveness, love etc revolutionised civilisation. What many would say make us “civilized”.
And not to credit him as the first. But certainly the first for who started following him to begin with. Some blood thirsty and oppressed tribe in the middle east… Inspired by??
Maybe Jesus was inspired by his Mum. She might have forgiven his dad.
(if the theory she was actually raped or a prostitute).
Anyway digressing from God. My definition still stands. Its someones unknowns. Invent a time machine, meet Jesus and I bet God is probably something different.
But def still exists😉
All this God talk comes across a bit pompous and pious. That’s not me.
Of course it’s a belief. It’s a belief that the laws of nature just exist, and were not set up by a god who then sat back and let the clockwork (and free-ish will) run uninterrupted.
It passes the Occam’s Razor test but is absolutely unprovable. Hence it’s a belief.
(You might guess from the above that I label myself an agnostic. The atheists are very likely right, but science can’t prove that.)