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Ontological Arument
- Necessary Existence
- God is required to exist by Definition
- To deny his
existence
would be
absurd
- To deny his
existence
would be
absurd
- God is a being 'greater' than
everything so therefore it is
absurd to thing he wouldn't
exist.
- Anselm
- Anselm
- God is required to exist by Definition
- 2 Strengths of the argument
- It is deductive.
- If valid it will be proof for
both believer for both
believer and athiest.
- If valid it will be proof for
both believer for both
believer and athiest.
- Even an Atheist can believe
that the concept of God is
greater than everything, even if
he doesn't believe it.
- It is deductive.
- Weakness of the Argument
- How can God be Omniscient?
- He cannot know out future choices due to free will.
- He cannot know out future choices due to free will.
- How can God be Omniscient?
- The Triangle Analogy
- The Necessary essence of a triangle is having three sides
- The essence of perfection is existence, as it wouldn't be
perfect if it didn't exist
- The same way that the part of being a triangle is
to have 3 sides, the part of being God is to exist.
- The Necessary essence of a triangle is having three sides
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