The Paradox of Agnosticism

Agnostics tend to say that their disbelief in God is based on the argument that God's existence cannot be proved. Hence, they usually ask for empirical demonstrations and they even say that on such conditions they are open to believe. I find this reasoning highly problematic and ultimately paradoxical. In few words, I think true agnosticism is impossible.

First, if we conceive (i.e. logically imagine in our minds) something like the Abrahamic God, we come to realize that It cannot exist. Because the requisite for something to exists is an origin or birth, a history and a death. This can be make of pagan deities and idols, who traditionally in mythology have supernatural births, supernatural lives, and even in some cultures, supernatural deaths. They exist because they come into the world, just as human beings. They are not eternal.

Contrariwise, the Abrahamic God of Jews, Christians and Muslims is eternal. Or as it is stated in Revelations 22:13 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End". God is the philosophical "being" Itself, as when It presents Itself to Moses in Exodus 3:14 by saying "I am that I am." If Gods is something, It is a concept, so It cannot exist. In logical language, It subsists, just like logical concepts. It can only be conceived by us, but not seen by us. This is also summarized by St. Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:18 when he writes, "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal". In the same way, concepts are not seen anywhere but conceived in our minds, because they are eternal. Our relation to God works in a very similar fashion, and the act of truly conceiving God is called faith. Just as concepts cannot be empirically demonstrated, God cannot be demonstrated. So the question for God's existence is misleading, and nonsensical.


The question of the being of God is, then, logical and never empirical. It is the principle of the existence of the universe itself, but not anything inside the universe.


This leads us to our second problem. Agnosticism asks something to be proved empirically through the method of scientific inquiry, when the conceptual and logical structure of the problem itself, the thing been asked to be proved, has no possible empirical expression. To put it straightforward: 
1.1) The concept of God cannot be empirically proved because, 
1.2) given that there would be an empirical proof, it means that it can be tested. 
2.) Hence, if it can be tested, it cannot be eternal, but particular. 
3.) If it is not eternal but particular, it cannot be God.
4.) God does not exist.
5.) If there is God, It does not exist but subsist.
6.) We call faith the act of truly conceiving God.

Agnostics do not follow this reasoning logically, but introduce a fallacy in the middle way. For example: If there is a God, it should be subject to empirical demonstration. But anything subject to demonstration can be anything but God, because the concept of God can only be eternal. This reasoning is obviously paradoxical and there is no way of solving it. i.e. if God is empirically proved, then, it is not God. If it cannot be proven, then I will doubt its existence. But doubt here is an euphemism to hide pure and simple atheism.

Conclusion: agnosticism doubts God by presenting a paradoxical problem that has not logical solution, never mind empirical. And because this paradox is inevitable in the reasoning of all agnosticism, their claim to be open to believe is nonsensical. It is a conscious or unconscious rhetorical device to disguise atheism. Hence, agnosticism is logically inconsistent and ultimately impossible.