Existence of God

... end with death; however, I know he exists through my unyielding faith. Without a genuine faith how can one justify his very existence? Faith is not blind, nor is it a giant leap into the unknown, but it is an act of the grace of God who inevitably leads us to him by showing us a path. In essence though, there is no way for me to vindicate ... his existence in a way that everyone can understand or even for me to understand, but it's a feeling that God has given me so that there is no way for ... me to actually deny his being. God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. The nature of...

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... about by Saint Anselm, parallels the closest with God's existence. It says that, "If I don't believe and I act accordingly and there is a God, I lose everything. However, if I believe in God and I act accordingly and there isn't God, I lose nothing." The argument of the wager makes sense. If one believes in God existence then the person won't miss a step in the path of life. Therefore, one must behave but believe ... in God and it will parallel with how He feels about his existence. God will not leave anyone out of the Global loop, therefore what ... lose everything because they didn't h...

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... read about works by philosophers and I feel to be the most accurate works on gods existence. Descartes tries to prove gods existence in his meditations. He is looking for a foundation on which he can base all beliefs and know that those beliefs are true. His third mediation proves the existence of god and the external world, although he does not come right out and say ... god exists he makes several point to say this. First he proves that he exists by saying whenever I utter or think I am I know this ... Descartes says that the less perfect can not create something more perfect or bett...

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... if that is true, the future could not determine how God feels, because he already knows what is in store. One could say that the human existence is nothing, but only in a certain context. Our human flesh and organs will all fade away one day, but the spirit within us is a part of God, and this lasts forever. Our feelings and thoughts guide us ... through this world, and you can choose to let God help and guide you along the way, or ... you can choose to ignore Him. Therefore, it can be argued that God is everything and the rest of existence is nothing but an extension of Him. So it can...

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... in the understanding alone, and realize that to be false. God must exist in reality as well as in the understanding. Although Anselm has presented a strong argument as to why God does exist, a Philosopher by the name of Immanuel Kant found a reason why Anselm's argument may not provide the final answer to the question of God's existence. In Kant's argument the main issue at hand is ... the meaning of "existence". Kant says that existence cannot be a property. A property is something that adds to, or alters, ... our idea of something. And existence does not do this. For Example, imagine ...

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... may believe upon faith alone, but others might have based their findings upon basic logic. Without a God there are so many basic questions about life left completely unanswered, such as, how did the Universe begin? There are many different proofs to the existence of God, and the type of proof used depends on the person being spoken to. If I were trying to convert a scientific-minded ... person then I would use the proof of origin from design. There are two premises to this proof. The major premise states that is there is ... it is to make the universe so perfectly with the exact condit...

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... thought." In Descartes "the Argument from Perfection" he reasons that if existence is one of the perfections and God has all the perfections, then God must exist. Along with these arguments others in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities have similar views. Cosmological arguments are a posteriori, these tend to lean toward proving the existence of God through a sense experience. Cosmological arguments come in many varieties, such as ... the existence of the universe to God as its creator, cause, or explanation. Cosmological arguments were started at the time the questions of th...

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... , which is based on reason alone. The Ontological Argument is based on the very being of God. It is not based on any observations of the world, nor any form of experience or external knowledge. It attempts to prove the existence of God from the meaning of the word God. E.g. If you understand what God is, you understand that he must exist. The Ontological Argument is also an "A priori" argument ... was still thinking. He famously said, "I think, therefore I am." Descartes had proved his own existence, but not of the outside world. In order to do so, he said that he needed to prove the exi...

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... is not enough proof that would determine that He does not exist. Nevertheless, it is possible to prove the existence of God, and that His existence can be demonstrated through belief, faith, reason, understanding, and experience. A combination of these methods will provide a generous amount of evidence proving God's existence because God's existence cannot be understood from just one aspect; it must be looked at from other angles. One famous account ... is by Thomas Aquinas. He stated that there are five ways to prove the existence of God. They are motion, efficient cause, possibility a...

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The cosmological argument for the existence of God. The arguments for and against the existence of god, is a very controversial issue and always has been. There are many different ways of viewing the idea of God and the cosmological argument is one that was adopted by the likes of the 13th century philosopher, Thomas Aquinas. The first thing to note about the cosmological ... is a chain of causes, which lead back to the beginning of time. The first cause would have brought the universe into existence and would have to have a necessary existence therefore, the first cause is god for it is god ...

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