@fmf said
Assuming "God" exists, where "God" is defined as an entity of some kind that somehow caused the universe we perceive to exist.
Assuming "God exists" is a fact...
Thought exercise #1
Why would we assume it is a "good" God?
Thought exercise #2
Why would we assume it had communicated with our species?
Thought exercise #3
Why would it follow that we are immortal beings?
A little late to the party, here but another idea.
Assuming "God exists" is a fact... OK God exists. It’s a fact of life.
Why would we assume it is a "good" God? Why would we assume it had communicated with our species? Why would it follow that we are immortal beings?
We wouldn’t.
Why would we assume any of those things? Who do we know who has ever assumed any of those things?
The Christian Bible exists. That is a fact. Some people who have read the Bible over the course of the last 2000 years believe the stories and ides within are true. The stories and ideas resonate with them.
Sometimes we read a book and believe it. That does not require any act of assumption. Other than assuming the writer or writers are telling the truth.
The first prayer I learned at 3 or something is “God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food.”
We don’t assume God is good we know it. We read it a book as children or saw it on the Internet as adults.