Arguments for the existence of God

world is through God because he is not a deceiver so material objects comes to existence. The idea of God must have a cause according to Descartes. Hume did not believe in a high power as Descartes did. They are both using their knowledge of mathematics. Hume uses mathematics through relations of ideas and Descartes uses it as an important property of…

been one of the most conceivable objections to the existence of God. According to the problem of evil, the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God would be logically incompatible with the existence of evil. However, as proven by theodicies such as that of free will, God is not the creator of evil. God gifted humans with the ability to choose freely between good and evil. Therefore, God is not responsible for the existence of evil. The notion of the problem of evil…

The existence of the universe stands in need of explanation. The only explanation that is logical is that God created it. (Holt, The Kalam Cosmological Argument) The universe is thought to have a beginning in time that its existence is thought to stand in need of explanation. (Holt, The Kalam Cosmological Argument) God created the moral law for three reasons. He created to show how his true character is. The moral law is God’s way of telling his people the path he ways them to go down. You are…

Man has been grappling with the complexity of free-will and determinism since the antiquity era. Over the centuries, innovative ideas have been presented defending both cases of the argument. In the case of determinism, I choose to focus on two specific branches of the philosophy: casual determinism and theological determinism. These two concepts contribute the most compelling evidence on the determinist’s behalf. The main issue which arises from determinism is the notion that an individual is…

look more into the evidence in the universe. The Cosmological and Teleological argument showed that they're evidence of a Creator. The Cosmological is that everything that created has a cause, but there has to be a first cause that was uncaused. More accurately, it “ Whatever begins to exist, has a cause of its existence.The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence” (Cosmological Argument). It just like Newton's first laws, which is anything that at rest stay…

experiences from waking experiences. In his argument, he defends the idea that we could all be trapped in a life-long dream and that none of our experiences are real. Descartes then develops his argument furthermore to prove his existence and the idea of dualism. In his Meditation he raises the question: “How can I know that I am not dreaming?” This very question provoked a very problematic concept that many philosophers attempt to explain. This dream argument that Descartes engaged in was so…

In Proslogium, St. Anselm presents the basis of the ontological argument for the existence of God. His argument is driven by two main ideas – the first being that it is possible to conceive of a being that is God, and the second being that existence is a great-making quality. In this essay, I will contend that this argument fails because existence cannot be conceived to be a great-making quality. Anselm defines a great-making quality to be one that when added to something, allows that entity to…

Hume’s arguments for the design argument, which states that the design argument fails. Hume’s objections to the design argument are first, that we cannot compare human artifacts to the universe because these are too different; second, that we have not witnessed the design of a universe; and third, that we cannot conclude that God is the only one. He criticizes the design argument by pointing out that the analogy is based only on limited experience, making it impossible to obtain knowledge of…

through a logical reasoning. The argument claims that the existence of evil is conflicting with the existence of an all-good, knowing and powerful God. 1. If an all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful God exists. Then evil does not exist. 2. Evil exists 3. So, an all-good, all-knowing and all powerful God does not exist Augustine is committed to the existence of God. Augustine disagrees with premises number two, he does not believe in the existence of evil, it is the actions…

previously thought to be certainly true, brings him to the subject of the existence of God in his Third Meditation. Before he touches on the existence of God, he concludes that there are three different types of ideas. There are fictional and adventitious ideas which Descartes’ creates on his own and finally there are innate ideas which are present in the mind at birth. With these types of ideas in mind, he begins to tackle the idea of God and which category he falls under. Many people have…