Existence

concrete proof of the existence of God; However, he continues by saying that in order to prove the existence of something he must also consider the counter argument of the existence of God. His references of various saints suggest that hiss argument is geared towards those who have a basic understanding of the faith and have some level of understanding regarding the people who have helped shape the faith. Williams goes on to reference the Bible to convince the audience of the existence of a higher power

The Existence of God (Theism and Atheism) Throughout the history of mankind, humans have believed in a variety of supernatural deities; some have believed in deities on a personal level while others view them as all-powerful protectors. Currently, a large percentage of the United States citizens believe in the God of Christianity, Yahweh. Christianity has had pagan influences, which means that Christianity religion has existed for twenty centuries; paganism predates Christianity, and this gives

conceptions of God within philosophy, but the most simple and widely accepted definition would likely be a “metaphysically necessary being.” That will be the definition of God for this paper. Numerous arguments have been put forth for and against the existence of a God, and some can be grouped together according to their type. Examples of these arguments range from teleological arguments to axiological arguments to cosmological arguments (to name a few). The following paper will focus on cosmological arguments

of the original ontological argument for the existence of God as proposed by St. Anselm in the 11th century. To illustrate the background of the ontological argument, Anselm’s argument works within a distinct framework of ontology that posits the existence of God as necessity by virtue of its definition. In other words, for the mind to conceive of an infinite, perfect God, ultimately implies that there must indeed be a perfect God that embodies existence, for perfection cannot merely exist as a mental

long going debate about the existence of god. The Teleological Argument, is the proof of an existence that’s called a deity, and a deity is sometimes called the “design argument”. It’s meaning that our universe is surrounding it, which indicate to us that it could not happen by accident, but in fact it was designed. Arguments of designs are arguments that concern our creator “God” existence of the purpose of this universe.

Descartes and the Existence of God Once Descartes has realized that he can know with certainty that “I exist” is true, he continues to build on his foundation of truths. The truth about the nature of God, proof of God’s existence, and the nature of corporeal objects are considered, among others, after Descartes proves his existence. Descartes’ principal task in the Meditations was to devise a system that would bring him to the truth. He wanted to build a foundation from which all further philosophical

cannot be conceived to not exist In chapter three of Anselm’s The Ontological Argument, he purposes the argument that God must exists through the thought of existence. His first premise is that a thing that can be thought to exist is greater than a thing that can be thought to not exist. So according to Anselm, things that go in and out of existence are lesser than things that are always existing. His second premise is that God is the greatest thing to exist. Finally his third premise is that if something

Throughout this paper I will discuss the argument of Anselms ontological argument for the existence of god. His basis of his argument being an analytical breakdown for the reason fot gods exsistence. While also establishing that Anselms inferences found with his use of deduction and logical means to prove the existence of a higher being are indeed true. In addition I will defend Anselms argument by depicting other people’s objections against his argument. Specifically the argument made by Gaunilo

has strong arguments put forward by numerous people, whom believe that the universe could only come into existence if it were caused by an uncaused causer, it is not strong enough to totally avoid criticism. Aquinas stated that everything must have a cause, nothing is its own cause, a chain of causes

God’s existence, a debate that will continue on for centuries to come, or of course, until God comes back. There are numerous arguments for the existence of God; however, Christians have a difficult time effectively arguing with a non-believer because there are strengths and weaknesses of each argument. The moral argument attempts to demonstrate how one would even question the morality of something if there was no God. There is marvelous standard of which we hold ourselves to in order to separate