Definitions

Interestingly, if you have faith that your current mental state exists and that your perceptions exist (both of which are interdependent), then you can simply define the existence of an Almighty, All-Knowing, Creator of Everything. All other assumptions about the nature of this Force can be extrapolated from its definition. The existence of a Creator does not have to be an article of faith- unless you try to believe that He is a Santa Claus looking guy who sits on a cloud.

Gee, that was easy.... right?

The huge stumbling block to the acceptance of this is preconception; Our false beliefs about the nature of such a force tend to generate a logically impossible image of God. We would like to believe that our Creator is good and fair; that it can even possess such attributes as goodness and fairness. We would like to believe that our creator listens to us and cares; that it can listen and care as we do. Goodness, fairness, hearing, and caring are traits of fallible beings. An omnipotent being hears everything and generates all sound at the same time. An omnipotent being is everything. There can be only one truly omnipotent being; it is the collection of all matter and energy. It is alive and sentient; its thoughts are the collective thoughts of the sentient beings. People can commune with it in infinite ways; including methodological scientific inquiry as well as thoughtful prayer and meditation. However, this communication, like any communication in which one party is not omnipotent, the quality and accuracy of the conveyed information is... variable.

I suppose that is the ultimate logical error. We would like to believe in a less-than-omnipotent friend-like being so that we might not feel so lonely, so responsible, and so fragile in our existence. This being is the one whose existence is in question, I think.