Arguments for the existence of God

Pascal, presents an argument for believing in God based on an individual getting the best afterlife. He argues that we all must make a wager either for or against the existence of God. This wager which will result in either heaven, hell, or no consequence. Based on Pascal’s premises, I believe his argument is unsound. This paper will be divided into three sections in which I will discuss my evaluation of Pascal’s Wager. In Section One, I will briefly summarize Pascal’s argument. In Section Two,…

“From the fact alone that I cannot conceive God except as existing, it follows that existence is inseparable from him, and consequently that he does, in truth, exist” (Davis 68). Descartes explains that only an adequate thing could produce an idea of God, and because God is the only adequate thing, then there has to be a God. Descartes thinks of this idea of God deceiving him but his conclusion that, “it is impossible that He, God, should ever deceive me, since in all fraud and deception…

and Newsome’s interpretation of their data can be justified using the argument model from Pascal’s…

Title: Proving the Existence of the Traditional Judeo-Christian God 1. Introduction and Thesis Give a short introduction (100 words) to the problem or topic. “This paper argues that that there is no possible way to know whether or not the traditional god exist, for there is free will 2. Explanation of Philosophical Views St. Aquinas third proof argues that an object itself can not have always existed there must be a point in which the object was first created, by something that has already…

For Descartes, things are sure paying little mind to sense experience and it appears to be rationally unthinkably to think about them as false. Given this, Descartes builds up his reasoning for the existence of God as an all-perfect being. He does this by starting with a thought that is viewed as sure and ascribing what makes us feel as though something is sure. For this situation he considers something sure as something so plainly and strikingly saw that it can't be untrue. Here he infers then…

The thinker George Berkeley contended against the notion of material substance existing. He built his argument from stringing together a series of claims on being and epistemology, and using them to attack belief in matter and dismiss it. Berkeley begins his argument with an attack on abstract thinking. He claims that generalities do not exist and the qualities of an object cannot exist outside of it. Notions of abstract ideas are made up and mistaken; that they cannot actually be thought off.…

Therefore, nature is probably the work of a designer” (Evans, 2009). God cannot be explained or defined, and He cannot be put into a neat little box of answers to all of man’s questions. Attempting to explain God’s nature and all that encompasses Him, His intelligence, character, and supernatural powers, would be futile and unfeasible. It would be impossible to explain everything that encompasses God, and attempting to do so would probably take an eternity. Acknowledging that human beings are…

place. It is marked with injustices and happenings that challenge the existence of mankind. It is hard to rely on the world as a source of happiness. Human life is greatly affected by the mere presence of humanity in the world. Man turns against himself by inventing social immorality and vices that disqualify the quality of life. It turns life into an unpredictable journey marked with multiple challenges that affect human existence. The efforts of a man to restore the quality of life and ensure…

points that were discussed in this section include the definition of Metaphysics, Christian Metaphysics and how it contrasts to Christianity, as well as its status in science and the subject of Metaphysics. Overall, Owens provided a conclusion of his arguments that summarized what the Metaphysics course is about and how it is understood and determined. Metaphysics is a deep understanding of what a being is and how it relates to the universe, how it leads to the supernatural and explains how…

on which it denies the existence of material substances and instead refers to that familiar object like tables and chairs, that are only ideas of the mind. As a result it cannot exist without being perceived. Thomas Hobbes who 's reputation relies on his…