Monday, October 13, 2014

A Short Compilation of Arguments for the Existence of God

     I have already written on this matter as my first post. However, I must admit that, out of my underdeveloped writing skills (as it is now), I failed to deliver in a clear manner. Now I try again. If there are corrections to be made, I welcome you to point them out.

     Modern skeptics and atheists hold that, perhaps out of their dense minds, faith and reason are incompatible. And indeed these modern thinkers convinced the vast majority of the masses. They even converted to their opinion those Christians who abandoned the apostolic tradition to conform to the ways of the world.  It is a laughable thing that even some Christians believe that believing in God is irrational. To testify to this claim, I have heard many of my Protestant peers say: "Theology is not about logic". To this, I thought necessary to demonstrate that faith is not incompatible with reason by providing some arguments for the existence of God. 


In my opinion, these are the three easiest arguments to understand. Ancient philosophers thought  the existence of Supreme Being obvious. I should say that the burden of proof has always been to the nonbelievers. 


Argument 1

1) If a thing is in motion, then that thing must have a mover.
2) It is self-evident that the universe is in motion.
 The universe must have a mover.

And we call this mover of the universe the Creator, the Prime Mover, or God.


Argument 2

1) If there is a finite being, then there must be an infinite being by necessity.
2) This universe is finite.
 There must be an infinite being by necessity 

And we call this infinite being that exists by necessity God. 


Notice that, in order for a finite value to be counted as a value, there must be by necessity values higher than it.

Example: <----------------->  Consider the line with arrows going both sides as a representative of the spectrum of numbers. Of course, the arrows extend far beyond what is given in reality. Within the line, there are finite values. But for these finite values to exist, there must be the line that is infinity.

For you scientific people, this argument should be similar to the argument for dark matter. One cannot empirically prove dark matter, yet it must exist by necessity for this material world to operate.


Argument 3

1) All the things that can be measured have real things either material or immaterial to base the measurement from.
2) If there are things in existence that can be measured in degrees of perfection, then there must be a real epitome of perfection by necessity.
3) There are things in existence that can be measured in degrees of perfection
∴ There must be a real epitome of perfection by necessity.

And we call this real epitome of perfection God. 


Objection
     An objection to the three prepositions would go like this: It seems that the existence of what you would prefer to call God can be proven. However, it is not sufficiently proven that it has a consciousness. Be it a prime mover, the infinite or the real epitome of perfection, a mechanical thing with no consciousness cannot be called God, for it is but a mere law like that of physics.

Reply
To the objection above I answer:

1) If a thing comes to be, then the prerequisite of that being is a mind.
2) The temporal universe we reside in came to be.
 There must be by necessity, as a prerequisite of the temporal universe, an eternal mind.

     For a creation, the prerequisite of it coming into being is always a mind. For a painting, there must be a mind of a painter. For a computer, there must be a mind of an engineer. This temporal universe was created by the Prime Mover as established in Argument 1. And because there can be no movers before the Prime Mover, it is necessary that the Prime Mover has a mind. Thus it is established that God is a being of consciousness.



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