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Does the Christian G-d exist? The following is just something I came across on the internet. It's not from any Jewish Studies sites. In fact, it's from one on atheism.

Christianity is based on the belief that Jesus is part of G-d. If Christians believe that Jesus is part of G-d and that G-d is omnicient, then they must believe that Jesus is/was omnicient. Now we have the following passage in Mark 13:32 of the Christian bible that demonstrates an incident in which Jesus was not omnicient:

"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."

Here Jesus claims that the Son (Jesus) does not know about the day or hour of the Second Coming. Remember, the Bible is supposed to be inerrant, so Mark 13:32 must be correct. Jesus was ignorant of something, so he could not know everything.

So given that the Chritian bible is presumed to be absolutely accurate, the Christian G-d cannot possibly exist with all of these characteristics. We can put this into terms of logic as follows:

= ... is that
P ... Postulate
G ... G-d
O ... Omnicient
~ ... Negation (or "it isn't so")
J ... Jesus
E ... Christian G-d Exists
> ... implies that

Postulate 1: G-d is Omnicient ... P1 = G is O
Postulate 2: Jesus is not omnicient ... P2 = ~(J is O)
Conclusion 1: Jesus is not G-d ... C1 = ~(J is G)

Postulate 3: The Christian G-d Exists implies that Jesus is G-d ... P1 = E>(J is G)
Postulate 4: Conclusion 1 is that Jesus is not G-d ... (C1) = ~(J is G)
Conclusion 2: The Christian G-d does not exist ... C2 = ~E

A moment of levity ... Jesus and Satan are having this ongoing argument about who is better at using the computer. They have been going at it for days, and G-d is getting tired of hearing all the bickering. Finally, G-d says, "Cool it. I am going to set up a test which will take two hours and it will judge who does the better job."

So Satan and Jesus sit down at the keyboards and type away.

They mouse.
They do spreadsheets.
They write reports.
They send faxes.
They send e-mail.
They send out e-mail with attachments.
They download.
They do some genealogy reports.
They make cards.
They do every known job.

But, ten minutes before the time is up, lightning suddenly flashes across the sky, thunder rolls, the rain pours, and of course, the electricity goes off. Satan stares at his blank screen and screams every curse word known in the underworld.

Jesus just sighs. The electricity finally flickers back on, and each of them restarts his computer.

Satan starts searching frantically screaming, "It's gone, it's all gone. I lost everything when the power went out."

Meanwhile, Jesus quietly starts printing out all his files from the past two hours.

Satan observes this and becomes even more irate. "Wait, he cheated. How does he do it?"

Ready? Want to know how he does it? ... a little scroll:

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G-d shrugs and said, "Jesus Saves."

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