There are many different beliefs and arguments that people have made throughout time about whether or not God exists. Some believe there is only one God, some think there are many, and some think there is no God. There are three main arguments that people tend to make about this subject. There is the ontological argument, the cosmological argument, and the design argument. With this paper I will discuss the different beliefs behind these arguments, my thoughts on this topic, as well as my past experience with this subject. Firstly, we’ve discussed that there are three main arguments: ontological, cosmological, and design. The ontological argument “is an argument that deduces the existence of God from the mere idea we have of God” (Philosophy
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They all have some sort of factual information that supports their information and provides a convincing argument. With the ontological argument I find belief in it as a relate of a couple different factors. In life we have copious inventions or creations that are coming out every day. Those inventions were all built from a person’s idea or thought. In other words we wouldn’t have the products we use every day such as machines, technology, literature, etc. if someone didn’t think it up first. This argument applied to the ontological theory makes sense in the fact that someone long ago came up with the idea that there was a God or a higher Being. When this person came up with this idea or belief, it became a reality. Now we don’t know for sure whether or not there is a God we can only have faith. Faith is what kept this idea of there being a God or higher Being alive for so long. Without people’s faith or belief in this otherworldly deity whose to say that it even existed in the first place? I also believe in the cosmological argument. Like before hand, this argument just makes sense. We have all learned in school that everything is in a reaction or motion. We have also learned that everything needs something else to start a reaction. With the cosmological argument they are think back before Pangea, before Earth was even created, to when there was nothing. Something must have caused a reaction in order to create the world we live in today. Now the question is if it was some higher being or if the universe was created already in
They all have some sort of factual information that supports their information and provides a convincing argument. With the ontological argument I find belief in it as a relate of a couple different factors. In life we have copious inventions or creations that are coming out every day. Those inventions were all built from a person’s idea or thought. In other words we wouldn’t have the products we use every day such as machines, technology, literature, etc. if someone didn’t think it up first. This argument applied to the ontological theory makes sense in the fact that someone long ago came up with the idea that there was a God or a higher Being. When this person came up with this idea or belief, it became a reality. Now we don’t know for sure whether or not there is a God we can only have faith. Faith is what kept this idea of there being a God or higher Being alive for so long. Without people’s faith or belief in this otherworldly deity whose to say that it even existed in the first place? I also believe in the cosmological argument. Like before hand, this argument just makes sense. We have all learned in school that everything is in a reaction or motion. We have also learned that everything needs something else to start a reaction. With the cosmological argument they are think back before Pangea, before Earth was even created, to when there was nothing. Something must have caused a reaction in order to create the world we live in today. Now the question is if it was some higher being or if the universe was created already in