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    my childhood where I asked questions like "what is the last number in the world?", or "who is God's mom?", and getting the answer, "infinity", or "he is his own mom", was beyond my understanding. However, the three different arguments for God's existence are not beyond my understanding and although I agree in some measure, these arguments can be easily grasped. Cosmological, teleological, and ontological arguments can be summarized as: because "this", God exists. Cosmological arguments state that

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    Throughout this paper I will discuss the argument of Anselms ontological argument for the existence of god. His basis of his argument being an analytical breakdown for the reason fot gods exsistence. While also establishing that Anselms inferences found with his use of deduction and logical means to prove the existence of a higher being are indeed true. In addition I will defend Anselms argument by depicting other people’s objections against his argument. Specifically the argument made by Gaunilo

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    bacon once said “man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true” even though many would argue with his belief, the existence of God is still a mystery and will be for more years to come. Centuries ego, there was a man who argued that god’s existence is provable and that was the famous 11century French monk Anselm of Canterbury, he offered a deductive argument for the existence of god, based on what he understood to be the nature of god’s bring or the definition of God. so what do you think God

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    ideas he now knows that his thoughts and his existence originated from God. Descartes has decided to come up with his own ideas and doubt everything that he has learned in order to start over and reteach himself. While doubting most of what he has learned about in life, Descartes comes to the realization that God does rightfully exist because he is able to have a defined and distinct conceptualization of God's being. Once he establishes the existence of God he is capable of comprehending some of

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    Religion (1779), Hume has the character of Demea present an Ontological Argument for the existence of God. Demea attempts to argue that God’s existence can be proven wholly a priori and logically, rather than through the a posteriori design argument. A priori arguments say that if the reasoning is valid then the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises, which Demea argues is the case when it comes to the existence of god. The following essay will discuss Demea 's standing, Cleanthes’ responses and

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    The Mystery of God's Existence The mystery of God's existence has been a crucial element of many religious studies and traditions. Who is God? What is God? Where is God? To effectively discuss the existence of God, it is necessary to illustrate the notion of faith. People of faith believe that God does exist, and that relationship with God gives meaning to their lives. Others who are skeptical point to God as an obsolete hope of an ignorant human race. People today live in a world distinguished

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    Ever since philosophy existed, the topic of God existence was one of the main discussion philosophers’ questions. Questions like do we have good reason to believe in God? If God is real why do bad things happen to good people? Or why is there evil in the world if God is all powerful. Our society is driven to find a clear answer to such questions. I believe all of these questions are important for religious people to ask. These questions help a person understand and fine reasons for his or her faith

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    God’s existence cannot be proved nor disproved, but this is an attempt to refute the existence of this all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good being through an analysis of arguments and theories that try to prove or insinuate His reality. To embark, Pascal’s Wager attempts to show non-believers that “it is in one’s best interest to believe in God” through a cost-benefit analysis. It examines the consequences of believing or not believing in God if he does or does not exist. It states: “If one believes

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    It is believed that Anselm and St. Aquinas have completely different views, however, their views are much more alike than we believe them to be. It is said that “Anselm’s “proof” of God’s existence operates on the premise that there is such a notion as Truth and that this truth is knowable through human intellect, reasoning or understanding” (Anselm 147). This meaning that once you understand what is meant by the concept of God, you can see that as a matter of logic it follows that God has to exist

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    ​The design argument for the existence of God is a type of inductive argument that states there exists an implicit and explicit design or purpose of the universe that points to a single designer, of whom many believe to be an omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, God. Theists in support of the design argument believe that there is such a small chance that the world could be aligned so perfectly for the universe to exist without the existence of an intelligent designer. Analogy is one form of the

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