The Existence of God Ever since I can remember, I have believed in God. I had always thought that he existed in a way that we did not understand and or can not comprehend, and that is spiritually (Almighty).
I have always thought that it would be impossible to prove / disprove God’s existence (solely based on the spiritual aspect), because if he is the almighty then he can come and go as he sees fit (be seen and unseen as he sees fit, too).
There has been a lot that has happened to me, not only in spiritual essences, but also in a physical essence that strengthened my beliefs that God exists. Call it social conditioning, that I have this belief, but my family and friends all have the same belief. Even after the class (First course in philosophy) has ended I am no more clear whether God exist (in a physical manner) or does not (at all).
Since I have grown up in the belief that God exists (which has not brought on any harm), then I shall go with what I believe in and state that he does exist. Evidence that he does exist is not needed, for this is like a court case you are innocent until proven guilty. So with this in mind, he exist until you can prove his non-existence. Although there are many arguments to disprove his existence none are solid proof.
Just like there are many arguments to prove his existence that lack physical proof, too. With this all in mind I will argue that the, so-called, evidence of his existence out ways that of his non-existence. In philosophy everything is about valid premises and sound arguments. This is why the existence of God is a good topic for discussion. On one hand you have the ones who believe and on the other the ones who disbelieve. They both can come up with arguments and counter arguments, i.
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e. God created the universe and gave birth to man. The counter could say that science has proven that atoms, nucleus and atomic ‘things’ all came together to create this universe. The ones who believe can say well God made those nucleus and atomic ‘things’ (and so forth).
My current position to this argument still holds firm with that God is the Almighty and there is no ‘sound’ argument that can prove /disprove his existence. When I was in eighth grade, I was crossing a main street coming back from a dance.
Being all ‘cool’ I did not look or even care if the traffic was clear for me to cut through. My friends, all in front of me, turned and said for me to ‘watch out’. Looking to on coming traffic there was a truck not even ten feet from me. I froze and do not remember anything else. Yet, when my friends were shaking me, to wake me up they all had stunned looks upon their faces. After talking to them, they said that ‘something’ had picked me up and tossed me to the side of the road (and it was not the truck or a friend).
We all said that if it was not God, then it was a spirit, but then I got this conclusion that God himself is a spirit. If this is not a valid argument, then what is? (Out side source, 1990) P 1) An unexplainable event occurred 2) Spirits are unexplainable 3) God is a spirit C: God is the unexplainable event that occurred. During class we discussed some arguments that defended Gods existence. Among those was an argument by Aquinas, which broke down Gods existence based on five reasons (movement, cause, necessity, hierarchy, and design).
Movement is explained that all things are in motion and the chain of movers can not go on forever, so the first mover must be God.
Cause is then said to be that a thing can not be the cause of itself and the chain of causes can not go on forever, then the first cause is God. Hierarchy states that things are more or less good (and bad) and there must maximum for which we measure, God is the maximum [the others Design and Necessity follow (Aquinas handout, march 01) ]. Anselm has an argument for God existing in reality (not just in the mind).
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Antony Flew: The Existence and Belief of God How can I start this paper? Hmmmm... ? ? ? Let's begin with the parable. Antony Flew starts off his speech by telling the audience this story of two explorers that accidentally came upon a garden in a jungle. In this garden, there were many beautiful flowers and weeds. One explorer says, 'some gardener must tend this plot'. While the other disagrees, ' ...
Anselm states that God is the greatest conceivable being, so that if this is true than there is nothing greater that can be conceived. Anselm’s breaks his argument in to sub-conclusions that no matter what he says; it keeps coming back to the fact that we can not conceive… better than God (Anselm handout, March 01).
During class I remember discussions on why people believe in God, yet no one could give evidence. The only repeating phrase was ‘that’s how I was raised’ (class discussion, March 01).
But can this (God) all be because of authority, that authoritative figures (who seem reliable) have embedded this thought of God in our head? One of the Objections to this point of Gods existence is, if he is there a then let see him. Proof of his existence is almost non-existence; the only thing to his defense is the bible (which was made by man).
Clifford says that it is wrong to believe something for which you do not have sufficient evidence for, and that beliefs turn into actions (Clifford p. 484).
This is true that beliefs turn into actions, but it is all in how a person perceives the belief. I can belief that I am going to fly and jump off the building to my death, yet God message is different and more humble. This leads me to my original argument that god is the Almighty and is a spirit. Does my beliefs lead to actions, not in a harmful manner but in a peaceful way.
