The Existence Of God 's Existence

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The existence of God has been an ongoing question that almost everyone has been searching for an answer.Back in the day when the idea of God was the centre of everyones conversation , Philosophers/Scientist began to argue of God’s existence and what God was like.With little knowledge and evidence to study whether God was real or not people came to realize that after years and years there was just not enough to justify either side which is why one should keep an open mind on topics like this.Our minds are still developing and there are such complex things out there that one day we hope to find a definite answer for.There is going to be objections that discuss on why other philosophers don 't believe in the idea of a God. There are still people to this day who are theist , atheist, and agnostic but right now we are going to focus on the philosophers and their pieces that prove that God’s existence is legit and one of the greatest philosophers that will focus on that is St.Thomas Aquinas and other philosophers with the same beliefs.

The existence of God is obviously the very first argument that arises, if we still yet have not found any evidence to justify the existence of God, why do people still believe there is one? Bertrand Russell(1872-1970) was a famous philosopher who argued back to this question by applying the Burden of proof using the teapot analogy. To sum it up, the teapot analogy is that there is a teapot somewhere out there in space that causes gravity. The teapot is “To small to be seen, to small to have gravity of its own,older than the universe itself, is responsible for the existence of gravity”(Philosophical content 5). When you apply this to the concept of God’s existence it ends up being the exact same ide...

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...thing that could possibly not be there,which Pascal Wager comes in defence and talks about the benefits there are in living life as if he did exist vs if he didn 't. Then God’s ability of not being able to deal with the existence of evil in the world comes into question which is supported by him giving us the free will and moral choice.Lastly they argue the idea that everything has an exact cause and if that exact cause hasn 't been identified yet, its probably because it caused itself .Which is opposed by the Cosmological argument where everything summed up to God being that creator.God created the universe and everything in it for a reason. We rely on one another, we learn from mistakes, we grow and advance in so many ways.Every single person and thing made on this earth was put there for a reason so there is no way the universe could have just created itself.

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