The Ontological Argument Analysis

It was Thomas Merton, a Catholic English writer who once said “To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name” (Merton). What was Merton’s main point of this statement? I believe he was trying to emphasize that God does in fact exist, because without God, we would cease to exist because we are made in the likeness of God. People ask the question of “Does God Exist?” for a long time. To one individual, He may not exist due to the negative things that have happened in their lives. To another individual, God may exist simply because of the evidence around them. I think the existence …show more content…
The two arguments that I think are the most compelling from this unit are the Ontological Argument, which is a priori argument, meaning before the experience. The other argument that is compelling is the Cosmological argument which is a posterior argument, or after the experience. The Ontological argument cam from Anselm and it states that “it is greater to exist in the mind and reality that just the mind, therefore God must exist” (McGowan). The Ontological argument isn’t about facts about the cosmos, but rather the concept of God. The Cosmological Argument states that “everything that is in motion is moved by something else, and infinite regress is impossible; there must have been a first mover; that first mover being God” (McGowan). “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word is God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all thins were made: without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:1-5). It is these two arguments that I find the most compelling arguments mentioned thus far in the