The Existence Of God
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all have ways to prove the existence of God. With all of these great arguments how can one
deny that there is a God. There is a God and with these reasons I will prove that.
There are two types of theology discussed in chapter nine of Kessler "Voices of
Wisdom," revealed and natural theology. Revealed theology comes from such sources as the
Bible and according to St. Thomas Aquinas gives us the knowledge for our salvation. Natural
theology supports my argument on a level that someone who does not believe in God can
understand better. This kind of theology defines God's nature and provides for his existence.
St. Thomas tells us that natural theology does not give us saving knowledge, because even if
you know God exists does not mean you have salvation. St. Thomas gave the example that
even devils know God exists. All of my arguments provided are philosophical theology or
natural theology.
For my first basis for the existence of God I will use the a posteriori, ontological
arguments. Ontological arguments are a priori, which show that God exists without appealing
to a sense experience. These ontological arguments argue about what God is to where he is
from.
St. Anselm, the creator of the ontological argument, based his theory on that we cannot
think of anything greater than God. Therefor God must exist, why you might ask? If the
greatest thing that we can conceive does not exist than we can still conceive the greatest thing
that does exist, and that would be God.
Descartes views God in a similar way to St. Anselm. Descartes sees God as the perfect
being while St. Anselm describes God as "that than which nothing greater can be thought."
In Descartes "the Argument from Perfection" he reasons that if existence is one of the
perfections and God has all the perfections, then God must exist. Along with these arguments...
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