Divine commands and the problem of due promulgation

This paper develops a new argument against the existence of the Abrahamic God, understood as Supreme Lawgiver and Judge. Just law requires due promulgation: no one can be justly held accountable for laws they could not reasonably know. Yet not all rational agents can, with minimal conscientious reflection, discover the divine commands binding on them. The failure of conscience, natural law, and the sensus divinitatis to resolve this problem shows that due promulgation has not occurred. Because the Abrahamic God represents Himself in Abrahamic scriptures as a just lawgiver who holds rational agents accountable for commands he has adequately promulgated to them, this failure entails that He does not exist. Unlike the problems of evil or hiddenness, which turn on contested expectations, the promulgation argument shows that the Abrahamic God fails by his own standards, which also correspond to our core intuitions concerning justice.