Knowledge of God Theory

The following statements are in contradiction:

• "I do not believe in God."
• "Among the peoples of the world there are various conceptions of God."

Ironically, so are these statements.

• "I believe in God."
• "Among the peoples of the world there are various conceptions of God."

     The first statement in these pairs require one to have a conception of what God is. There are nearly unlimited conceptions of what god is (see wikipedia's Conceptions of God).  Someone could legitimately say they don't believe in God as the old man in Michelangelo's famous painting, or they don't believe in God according to the pantheistic  view in Kabala in which all of creation and all of existence are in fact God itself.

     But the blanket statement "I do not believe in God" is equivalent to saying "I don't believe in any conception of God," which is patently false, since some people believe that God is Love, God is gravity--the attraction that pulls us all together, God is indefinable, or even axiomatically, and almost circularly, God is that which is worshipped by believers in God.

    In conclusion, what is suggested is that one cannot claim to believe or not believe in 'God' without providing a conception of how God is understood to them. Most people who say they don't believe in God in fact don't believe a particular conception of God.

(Nothing presented above is revolutionary, all it does is require more clarity from those speaking about such large topics.)