Two Problems for the Abrahamics and Paganism as Default Original Position

“In the beginning God…” didn’t exist. (Genesis 1:1, sort of).

In the opening chapter of the Old Testament, one reads that God created the heavens and the earth and all that in them dwell and this ex nihilo. Jews and Christians have always taken this as prima facie fact. However, outside of special revelation (the Bible), there is little to no reason to accept this foundational assumption of the Abrahamic faiths, i.e., the proposition that a singular deity created the universe and all that it contains. In fact, this is quite readily refuted.

There are a number of problems with respect to the monotheistic deity of the Abrahamics. Below, we will briefly survey but a few.