Why Do God Exist

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The argument consists of several premises and one conclusion. The first premise would be "If there is no God, then there is no morality". The second premise would be "If God doesn't exist, then there are no truths about what is and what is not moral". The third premise would be "of course God exists, since the billions of faithful believers out there couldn't all be wrong". Finally, the conclusion would be "Therefore, it necessarily follows that there are objective truths about what is moral". The argument is base on the idea of Theism, which is the belief that God exist. Sine the argument states that God exists, then there are objective truths about what is moral. The first two premises links the existence of God to the "truth" of what is

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