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When someone say "You can't prove that god does not exist.", you can say that they can't prove their god is the only god. There could be an even greater god that the "lesser" god cannot detect.
That is, unless we are looking at the God of the Cross. It would seem to me that, if there were another God more powerful than he, then wouldn't that God have prevented the resurrection to keep the false one from taking credit?
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Because of that, I don't think it is possible even for a god to be all-knowing or all-powerfull, since there's no limmit where you can be 100% certain and say "There's nothing outside my scope of knowledge. I know all.", or "I am the most powerfull being, and I can do anything. And I'll never, ever lose my power."
What makes you so certain of that? I'd submit that, if such knowledge were strictly on the human level, you might be right. After all, there are limits on what a finite, fallible human being can know. But that doesn't mean that an infinite God cannot know such things. Limits on human knowledge and human power do not necessitate limits on the Creator.
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And I don't really understand what all-loving is supposed to mean. Like, loves everything? Doesn't really look like it in the bible, tough.
I'm not sure where the terminology "all-loving" comes from, and therefore cannot comment on its intended meaning in every context. I do not believe it is a biblical word. However, the concept of God's love, as we know it from Christ, is that "God so loved the world [i.e., his creation and every person in it] that he sacrificed his only begotten Son," and "God demonstrates his perfect love for us in this: that even while we were sinners, Christ died for us." Now, this love does not contradict his absolute justice, by which he punishes sin, or for that matter, destroys those who seek to destroy his people. It only means that, in his love for all creation, he does not tolerate those who seek to cause harm to the order which he created.
Just a bit of advice: it really helps when we step outside of the philosophical terminology and think of him as a Person. What Father in his right mind wouldn't fight, even kill, to protect his family?
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Besides, even if there is a god, and the bible is his word, we can't know if he's telling the truth. What if he lied, and spent the last 2000 years laughing at us?
That's not terribly different from a question Rene Descartes asked in his own struggle with faith. In the end, however, he concluded that such a sadistic God cannot exist; it would be an affront to all existence, that is to say, it would make nothing in this life certain, even the empirical science that Descartes loved so much. Even science would be just a cruel joke on us.
But in that regard, all I can say is, go back and observe Christ's life. Whether or not God might be a liar might be in question here, but I've already outlined reasons why I do not believe the apostles were. Does the kind of life Jesus lived strike you as one of a cruel jokester? (I could imagine Superman trying to make him say "Susej" to send him back to his home dimension).
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If I came face to face with a god, and it told me it was all-knowing and all-powerfull, I might ask it "How do you know you're all-knowing? Would you be able to tell if you were all-powerfull or not? How can you prove that there's definetly, absolutely, nothing at all, whatsoever, that is more powerfull than you and/or that you do not have any knowledge of?"
Ah, but that's just it. I don't think God would submit himself to your questioning. If anything, he might just point out to you how infinitely little you do know in comparison to him, and say, "Considering your own human fallibility and limitation, who the heck do you think you are to question me? I'm the Creator, and your the creature. Do you honestly think you're smarter than me? Or that I really have to prove anything to you? I'm the divine judge here, not you." I am suddenly reminded of Jim Carey for some reason. But as YHWH says in Isaiah, "My thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are my ways as your ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are above your thoughts."
Anyway, Duke, these are all interesting questions. I just don't think they really touch the heart of the matter here. Even if there were some sort of "Overgod" (not that I'm even conceding there is), the fact is that we must still answer to the one who created us.
But you see, Duke, I do see a tendency in what you're saying, which is essentially, "Even if God proved himself to me, I still wouldn't believe." That being the case, I cannot help but feel sorry for you. An entire world is closed off to you.
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