Proof of God's Existence Either God exists or he doesn't. There is no middle ground. Any attempt to remain neutral regarding the existence of God is automatically synonymous with unbelief. The question of God's existence is really important. Does God exist? Theology, cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments all have ways to prove the existence of God. With all these great arguments how can anyone deny that God exists? God exists and with these reasons I will prove it. There are two types of theology discussed in Kessler's chapter nine “Voices of Wisdom,” revealed and natural theology. Revealed theology comes from sources such as the Bible and according to St. Thomas Aquinas gives us knowledge for our salvation. Natural theology supports my thesis on a level that someone who doesn't believe in God can better understand. This type of theology defines the nature of God and provides for his existence. St. Thomas tells us that natural theology does not give us saving knowledge, because even if you know that God exists it does not mean that you have salvation. St. Thomas gave the example that even devils know that God exists. All arguments given are philosophical theology or natural theology. For my first basis for the existence of God I will use a posteriori ontological arguments. Ontological arguments are a priori, showing that God exists without appealing to sensory experience. These ontological arguments discuss what God is and where he comes from. Saint Anselm, the creator of the ontological argument, based his theory on the fact that we cannot think of anything greater than God. Therefore God must exist, why you might ask? If the greatest thing we can conceive of does not exist, then we can still conceive of the greatest thing that exists, and that would be God. Descartes sees God similarly to St. Anselm. Descartes sees God as the perfect being while St. Anselm describes God as "that than which nothing greater can be thought." In Descartes' "The Perfection Argument" he argues 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. The cosmological arguments are…half of the paper…didn't once exist, it has parts that were put together to form the clock, each of these parts had to be shaped and then they were all put together in harmony to form the clock from the watchmaker. On a larger scale the universe did not always exist, it had to be formed by a greater being, God. Without God the universe would not exist and the non-existence of the universe is obviously false. He goes further to say that we have never seen the clock made, nor the person who made the clock, and we may not be able to make the clock ourselves, yet the clock exists. You can say the same about the universe. We may never have seen the creation of the universe, or the being that created it, and we may not be able to create a universe ourselves, but the universe exists. In his arguments he also states that, even if the watch contains no evidence of an ingenious plan, it has a reason to make a person think so. This means that even if the universe had no evidence of having been created, it is only evident that it was created by God for a purpose. Therefore through teleological, cosmological and ontological arguments, as well as deism and theism.
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