Existence of God

attribute that can be applied to God in order to describe his essence. The attribute of perfection differs in meaning when applied to human beings because human beings are creations of God. For example, what human beings call perfect it may be due to the individual’s personal preference. This can be illustrated in calling a painting or a piece of music perfect. This poses a problem because every human being may have a different definition of what is perfect. God is the true source and…

today try and find ways to explain how God exists, and that is no different from when Rene Descartes was alive. Rene Descartes was born in France but later moved to Holland where free thought was tolerated. One night, to avoid the cold, Descartes locked himself in an oven where he had a series of revelations which he claimed came from God. In this paper, I will discuss Descartes argument for Gods existence. In argument one of his meditation of proving God’s existence, Descartes says he is going…

there sufficient evidence to support belief in God? God is immaterial, He is eternal, incomprehensible, and that is, God was and always will be. Thus, He is the Absolute Creator, which, by definition, no one has created. In order to breathe, we aim not to see the air, but to utilize it. Moreover, the air is invisible. However, it does not negate the invisibility of its necessity and certainly does not deny its existence. Man verifies the existence of the object or event either through direct…

One either believes that there is a God that exists, or there is not. While there are numerous opinions on God’s existence, Blaise Pascal, author of “The Wager”, believes that there is a God. However, according to Pascal, a French philosopher, we cannot fully comprehend God. “The Wager”, which includes a psychological argument, consists of individuals who are willing to risk their own lives and bet on the existence of God. Essentially, the argument of this work is between philosophy and…

Aquinas' Summa Theologica: Proofs for the Existence of God, is a thirteenth century collection of five deductive arguments that, as the name suggests, supposedly prove the existence of God. In these arguments, or proofs, as Aquinas calls them, there is the assumption that there are some things that only God is capable of making happen – such as motion and cause - and ergo, God has to exist for these things to exist. Aquinas' first argument for the existence of God is that of the 'Unmoved…

higher power. The question of God’s existence is one that has intrigued humanity and countless of philosophers since the beginning of logical thinking. Many philosophers believe that God exists, while others argue and refute His existence. Did the universe really occur by random chance? Or is the universe intricately designed according to a superior being? Cosmological evidence for the origin of the universe presents the Big Bang Theory as the cause for its existence. The Big Bang model implies…

consist mainly about reasons on God and how it can be proved that God exists. He incorporates the ideas of metaphysics and ethics to demonstrate the existence of a higher power. I agree to his argument that the existence of God is self-evident amongst is also demonstrable which is agreeable. The concept of self-evident is defined as no reason or proof is required to prove an objective. In Aquinas’s terms, self-evident can be associated with the belief that the existence of God doesn’t require…

The question of God and the existence of has lasted for thousands of years and while many philosophers have tried to prove or disprove Gods existence, it is still a common controversial topic today. There are three arguments that can be used in relation to the existence of God, the cosmological, the ontological, and the teleological. All three arguments have something in common, they all believe that there must be something greater in order for human existence to occur. They all have different…

Pascal: Pascal’s Wager essentially revolves around the fact that betting on God’s existence is the best bet that one can make.This is because if one wagers on God’s existence and God doesn’t exist, they lose nothing. However, if he does exist, then the can potentially gain entrance into Heaven which is the ultimate reward. Therefore, betting on God’s existence is the best bet that one can possibly make. Pascal’s Wager excludes the important virtues that support Christianity and serves as a…

to prove the existence of God. The most common leader of the argument is Thomas Aquinas who devised Five Ways to prove the existence of God, which he referred to as “demonstration.” It comes to the conclusion that God exists from posteriori because it focuses on cause and effect to come to an assumption that God exists, which contrasts with the priori approach to the ontological argument. Linear religions generally accept that God made the universe ex nihilo because in Genesis God existed at…