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I am now going to provide five arguments for why God does not exist. Obviously, this is a very complex issue and and I don't know the right answer. However, I hope that these two articles will give you an opportunity to think through the issue and try and make a decision for yourself. And if you can't decide, you can always be an agnostic! Okay, now for five reasons that God does not exist.

1. God is not compatible with free will - The commonly held view of God is that he is all knowing and is also the creator. So, God created every one of us and, further, knows exactly what we are going to do with our lives. This means God has complete knowledge of the past, present and future. Therefore, all our actions are, in a sense, preordained and our free will is simply an illusion. If this is the case, we can't truly be held responsible for our actions. One might respond to this point by saying the following: even though God knows how we will act, we have free will because it is still our choice. This is illogical, however, considering that God created us. Therefore, either we do not have free will and so the world is not truly just (which is inconsistent with the just world that God is supposed to preside over) or God is not all powerful, so we have free will but God is not really the all powerful, all knowing being people claim that he is.