Why it’s time to redefine the divine

If the Bible had never existed would we know about God from any other prior source? If there was nothing before God created everything, where was God beforehand? Is there really an intelligent supernatural being in or beyond the universe, or is the concept simply a long-lived superstition?

Categorically, there’s no proof, not even circumstantial evidence, of the existence of God. Today we’re left in exactly the same situation as Blaise Pascal 350 years ago, that God can exist only as a possible concept based on individual choice; whether one believes or not is simply a matter of personal outlook.

Belief in the one male god of Christianity, Judaism and Islam dates back more than 2,500 years when the Hebrew scripture of Genesis was put together in the sixth century BCE. The narrative came from older traditions although there’s no documentary evidence from any other source of a monotheistic culture to do with this particular God before that time.

What’s strange is that, for more than 2,000 years, people worldwide have accepted the same inadequate texts, without question, as establishing a convincing ground on which to develop religions whose undemocratic, even pathocratic, hierarchies, with their self-interested rules, have controlled society.