Does God Exist Essay

with false assertions about religion and the existence of God. From this perspective, Dawkins is proving that God doesn’t exist on false claims such as heredity and Agnostic beliefs. On the other hand, however, others argue that his arguments stem from logic and reason. That one needs evidence to prove that something exists and a lack of evidence against God not existing doesn’t prove that God does exist. According to this view God doesn’t exist and Dawkins proves it with logic. In sum then,…

Pascal’s wager is an irrational argument that oversimplifies and does not prove the nature of God. The argument consists of many flaws seen when closely analyzed. His argument is too general and only applies to certain believers. In addition, Pascal’s wager may have been applicable to a time when Christianity was a dominant religion; however, in todays multicultural society this may not be the case. Pascal was a French thinker who contributed to the basis of calculus; given his…

existence of an all-good and all-knowing God, which was discussed in class. Atheistic Argument From Evil If God exists, then He is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good. If God were omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good, then the world would not contain evil. The world contains evil. Therefore, God does not exist. Beginning with Premise one, it states that if God exists, then He is omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good. This meaning that God knows everything, He is all-powerful,…

evidence to support belief in God. There have been many philosophical thinkers who have looked into this controversy. Is there a God and if there is how can we prove this is true? There were many philosophical thinkers that had an opinion on this topic, some of the most important in stating sufficient evidence proving gods existence were Saint Augustine, Saint Anslem, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Augustine was dealing with God and the future. Augustine thought that God knew the future and if…

existence, is the most sound argument making it superior to the others. Pascal’s Wager begins by examining nature. He argues that “We know that the infinite exists without knowing its nature, just as we know that it is untrue that numbers are finite.” This logical theory is supported by the idea that what we do not know can possibly still exist even if we have no proof of it being there.…

I assert the position that to argue the existence of God, first depends on how much control one is or is not willing to exercise over oneself. The belief in the existence of an omnipotent, supreme being or force, requires one to relinquish some sort of control over one’s own faith and reason in return for the entitlement of certain divine positive rights. For example, the concept of salvation in Christianity requires repentance and faith in the holy trinity. this then, entitles the devotee…

that God does not exist in the minds of atheists. Atheists argued that should God exit, then a pious person, such as Job in the Biblical Book of Job, who kept his faith in God, should not have suffered miserably from undeserved evil on earth. To support this statement, Job’s friend, Eliphaz suggested that the problem of Evil emanated from man and did not spring from the earth and that man is born to trouble. The religion of Manichaeism asserted that there must have been two gods-one of good god…

Before St. Thomas Aquinas gave an answer to the question whether God exists in things, he, in I.7, answered that God is limitless. The characteristic of limitless things is to exist with an unending amount everywhere in everything . Then he asks about God’s existence in things, I.8.1-4. He is trying to answer the questions: Is God in all things, Is God everywhere, Is God everywhere by essence, power, and presence, and Does it belong to God alone to be everywhere? These questions and their…

consequently contradict the image of God or the existence of a Deity. The Problem challenges how a limitlessly benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God can allow evil to exist. The problem was first tackled as early as 342-270 BC by Epicurus, "Is God willing but not able to prevent evil? Then he is impotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" (Clark, PJ, 1999:125). This poses the question, if God truly possesses…

In order for God to actually fit the role of “that than which non greater can be conceived” Anselm must provide something other than just a simple inference from his Christian faith. His thought process derives from believing that God is the supreme being of this world without doubt because no other objection has been made limiting his image and powers. However according to Hume if we were to think of the contradictory ideas of god that would make him unconceivable (Hume, XI). So being able to…