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| | Existence of God - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The existence of God is said to be one of the latter. | | | Polytheistic religions use the word "god" for several beings, all of whom are believed to exist. | | | It is contrasted with weak atheism, which is the lack or absence of belief in God or gods, without the claim that God or gods do not exist. |
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| | Arguments for the existence of God |
| | God is herein identified as Yahweh (Jehovah) of the Hebrews, the God of the Bible. | | | Three cosmological arguments are commonly relied on by theists to verify the existence of god: the first-cause argument, the contingency argument, and the entropy argument. | | | If the theist is to use ignorance of the root cause of a natural phenomena as an argument for god's existence, then he must also grant ignorance of the existence of god. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Existence of God |
| | For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: because that which is known of God is manifest in them. | | | This argument undertakes to deduce the existence of God from the idea of Him as the Infinite which is present to the human mind; but as already stated, theistic philosophers are not agreed as to the logical validity of this deduction. | | | Rational theism is a necessary logical basis for revealed religion; and that the natural knowledge of God and natural religion, which Catholic teaching holds to be possible, are not necessarily the result of grace, i.e. |
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| | Existence of God |
| | On The Existence of God by Timothy Dwight | | | The Thomistic Cosmological Argument ~ For The Existence of God ~ | | | I Believe in God - The Existence of God is Axiomatic |
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| | Arguments for the Existence of God |
| | Apologists rely on a variety of arguments to substantiate the existence of a God, or to support the claims of divinity by a particular denomination's founder(s) or for its sacred texts. | | | The occurrence of miracles is frequently purported to be evidence of the supernatural, and therefore of the existence of a God. | | | Arguments for atheism or the nonexistence of a God can be found in the Arguments for Atheism section. |
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| | Arguments for and against the Existence of God |
| | The polytheistic conceptions of God were criticized and derided by the monotheistic religions. | | | Since the Gods of various religions differ widely in their characteristics, only one of these religions, or none, can be right about God. | | | Since God is invisible, and the universe is no different than if he did not exist, it is simpler to assume he does not exist (see Occam's Razor). |
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| | Existence of God - God Exists - God's Existence |
| | Maybe some argument for God's existence will persuade you that belief in God is reasonable. | | | Existence of God - God Exists - God's Existence | | | It simply places the question of God's existence in the same category as other questions such as that of the existence of the external, mind-independent world and the question of how we know other people have minds. |
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| | Apologetics |
| | The person who believes in God does not have to use such lame comebacks as "Nobody can prove that God doesn't exist." However, the believer must take the time to study and research the issues that are being discussed. | | | I personally have never found an unbeliever who has claimed to have examined all possible arguments for the existence of God, nor have I found one who could give an apriori reason why it is impossible to prove that God exists. | | | But, since we find few people who reject the existence of God, who are chewing on steak knives, we must assume that either they have not examined this argument, or they are selectively rejecting the argument despite its validity, and soundness. |
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| | The Existence Of God |
| | The existence of a God is the first dogma of the Theophilanthropists. | | | It has been well observed, at the first institution of this Society, that the dogmas it professes to believe are from the commencement of the world; that they are not novelties, but are confessedly the basis of all systems of religion, however numerous and contradictory they may be. | | | It is there that he reads of God. |
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| | Does God Exist? |
| | Even if some or all of the arguments for the existence of God were judged to be plausible, if there were also convincing arguments against the existence of God then this would be reason to question whether those arguments for God’s existence really are as successful as they seem to be. | | | Simple explanations of common arguments for the existence of God and the deity of Jesus. | | | As a preface to the arguments, it is worth noting an argument that the claim that God exists is made more plausible by the fact of wide-spread religious belief. |
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| | Does God Exist - Six Reasons to Believe that God is Really There - Existence of God - Proof of God |
| | When it comes to the possibility of God's existence, the Bible says that there are people who have seen sufficient evidence, but they have suppressed the truth about God. | | | The Bible describes God as the author and sustainer of life. | | | After about a year of persistent questioning, she responded to God's offer to come into her life and has found faith in Him to be constantly substantiated and greatly rewarding. |
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| | Does God Exist? |
| | Of all the lessons that I present concerning the existence of God and of all the material that I try to make available to people to learn about God's existence, the present lesson, "Why I Left Atheism," is the lesson in the series that I frankly do not like to present. | | | I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence. | | | Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.... |
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http://www.doesgodexist.org
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| | Existence of God |
| | Existence without limit, the very to be which is the source of all existing things, is the metaphysical name of God. | | | Another was to confuse on the practical level knowledge by faith with a metaphysical knowledge of God. | | | A metaphysical knowledge of God does not, by itself, bring us into a living contact with the God of faith. |
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http://www.innerexplorations.com/philtext/ex.htm
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Anselm: On the Existence of God |
| | Medieval Sourcebook: Anselm: On the Existence of God | | | In his other major work, the Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man), he offers an explanation for the Christ's incarnation and crucifixion which essentially argues that God had to do it that way because it was the only logical course he could follow, given the divine attributes of omnipotence and justice. | | | Thank you, my good God, thank you, because what I believed earlier through your gift I now understand through your illumination in such a way that I would be unable not to understand it even if I did not want to believe you existed. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/anselm.html
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| | Reading: The Existence of God |
| | Back to God, Zen and the Intuition of God | | | It is within the context of the intuition of being that the question of the existence of God must be placed. | | | Thomas gives his five ways leading to the existence of God, and Maritain adds a sixth, and there are others, but they must share the common essential ingredient of an intuition of being which vivifies them. |
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Does God exist? |
| | It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. | | | I answer that, The existence of God can be proved in five ways. | | | But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100203.htm
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| | Design Arguments for the Existence of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | But since it is the very existence of such a being that is at issue in the debates about God's existence, design arguments appear unable to stand by themselves as arguments for God's existence. | | | What proponents of design arguments for God's existence, however, have not noticed is that each one of these indubitably legitimate uses occurs in a context in which we are already justified in thinking that intelligent beings with the right motivations and abilities exist. | | | Indeed, to the extent that we are antecedently justified in believing that God exists, it is obviously more reasonable to believe that God deliberately structured the universe to have the fine-tuned properties than it is to believe that somehow this occurred by chance. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Aquinas: Proof of the Existence of God |
| | It is objected (1) that God does not exist, because if one of two contradictory things is infinite, the other will be totally destroyed; that it is implied in the name God that there is a certain infinite goodness: if then God existed, no evil would be found. | | | It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, atthough not a priori (by pure reason), yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. | | | Again, (2) that the subject matter of demonstration is that something exists, but in the case of God we cannot know what exists, but only what does not, as Damascenus says (Of the Orthodox Faith, I., 4.) Hence that we cannot demonstrate God's existence. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Existence of God: Books: John Hick |
| | The first argument for the existence of the monotheist god is the ontological one, by Saint Anselm. | | | And by Divinity, I mean study of the monotheistic god. | | | Braithwaite concedes this argument, but explains that religious statements have ethical significance, while John Hick asserts that the claim of god's existence is of a factual nature. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0020854501?v=glance
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| | Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God? How the Recent Discoveries Support a Designed Universe |
| | Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God? | | | I must conclude that it takes a great deal more faith to believe in an accidental universe than to believe in an intelligent creator, or God who crafted such a marvelous universe and beautiful place of habitation in planet Earth, and then created life (including human beings) to occupy it. | | | Kepler declared: "The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics."{3} |
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