2011-11-11
5 Ways To Prove The Existence Of God
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The Prime Mover: This is a cosmological way of proving the existence of God. Natural Law complements this first way through the Law of Motion of physics which states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless a certain object or force acts upon it. This Law also is true in the Universe; things are constantly in motion. Logic and physics will tell us that a certain object moved because a mover acted upon it. However, that initial mover was in motion only because a mover acted upon it.
This would lead us to a belief that there are a series of movers that caused all the motion in the universe, but this will cause an infinitum, and thus lead us to a conclusion that there is a prime mover—an unmoved mover—which lead to all the movements and motion in the universe. This Prime mover is a being, also known as God
Contingency and Necessity: This third approach deals with the belief that there are two kinds of beings, the contingent and the necessary being. Contingent being refers to those beings which are also considered as accidental beings, meaning they could have existed or not existed. Necessary beings are those beings which cannot afford not to exist. Human beings such as us are contingent being, meaning there is a possibility that we did not exist. God on the other hand is a necessary being because if God did not exist, then nothing, even the universe, will not exist at all. This necessary being, we call God.
The Gradation of Characteristics: ‘Think of a being of which nothing greater could be conceived. This way explained the existence of God using practical observation of the forces of nature. Aristotle used the concept of fire, which comes from heat. Levels of heat are different among different objects, however there will always be something that will be the hottest among them. It goes the same with perfection. We humans are created perfect and there are beings that exhibit more perfection, but there will be only a single being that exhibits complete perfection. That being we know as God.
The Architect of the Universe: Order of perfection in the universe: The universe is an enormous being of which we humans have no capability to create. But with observation, we can see how the movements/motion of the universe are in order. Each motion seems to complement each of the other motions in the universe. This order will not be possible if no being has designed a pre-established order in the universe—an Architect. This being, the Architect, we call God.
So why ever doubt that God exists.
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16 Responses to “5 Ways To Prove The Existence Of God”
November 11, 2011 4:51 PM
Well this is full of crap o.O
November 11, 2011 5:37 PM
it only shows that you're an atheist
November 11, 2011 6:57 PM
Talk about jumping to conclusions. WOW!!
November 11, 2011 6:59 PM
1. The Big Bang.
2. The cause doesn't have to be a being. Big Bang again.
3. Of course you can reach the conclusion that God exists when one of your premises is that God exists. Circular logic.
4. Horses are sort of like unicorns, and by the logic of this argument, there must be a horse that is more like a unicorn than any other horse: a unicorn. Thus, unicorns exist. I can do this with elves, Cthulhu, and basically anything, fictional or not.
5. When we place two magnets near each other, they stick together. Since obviously objects on a flat surface will not move together unless pushed, a being somewhere has to do the pushing. This being is Zeus.
November 11, 2011 7:01 PM
OP is either a retard or a troll.
November 11, 2011 7:19 PM
Or they're a big believer in antiquated thinking that seems silly by modern standards. You know, a religious person.
November 11, 2011 7:45 PM
He aint retarded or what, there are people who really believes in this stuff.
November 11, 2011 8:14 PM
1: There is no proof that God has to be the first mover. What moved God? If you say God does not need to be moved, I could then say that any item could have been the first mover with as much confidence given both have the same amount of evidence supporting it.
2:And why couldn't the universe be the uncaused cause? Wouldn't it make more sense that a simpler (IE: non-sentient inanimate) object (the universe) would be the first thing rather than the extremely complex God you propose?
3: This assumes that we need a God. You have yet to show that.
4:So if i think of the most perfect horse with a horn, then unicorns exist? SWEET! Besides, when i imagine the greatest being, i want him to be super great. To measure greatness, you take the greatness of the achievement and then add how hard it was to achieve. (achievement + handicap). The biggest handicap i can think of is not existing, so if god is the greatest thing, he must not exist AND created the universe.
5:Yes, everything moves in sync. That's why asteroids hit planets, galzies run into each other and black holes suck in tonnes of matter each day.
November 11, 2011 8:24 PM
This is stupid.
November 11, 2011 8:32 PM
You don't understand Thomas Aquinas. His arguments are great, but this shows a poor understanding. Off the top of my head, you don't understand:
1. Aristotelian motion
2. Aristotelian teleology
3. Aquinas' use of the word contingency
4. That the Argument from Degrees is not the ontological argument, and Aquinas rejected the ontological argument
I'd recommend checking out Edward Feser's "Aquinas".
November 11, 2011 9:17 PM
All Athiest! Die
November 12, 2011 12:08 AM
Okay, for the first one I find myself wondering how you make the leap from first motion to intelligent being. The same problem comes up in the second, why do you assume the first cause is intelligent rather than an impersonal un-thinking as-of-yet undiscovered force? The third is patently false, the universe does not need a god to exist. Period. For the fourth I find myself wanting to point out that perfection is a logical impossibility, and not simply because a lot of it is a matter of opinion. There is a heat otter than which does not burn, but not a heat hotter than which cannot be concieved. Er go, there is a being, somewhere in the universe, closer to an objective perfection than any other, this does not make said being truly perfect, nor does it make them a god. As for the fifth, and I hate to be the one to tell you this, but there is no set order to the universe. The human mind evolved to see and understand patterns even when there are none, which is why we can watch cartoons where the characters have completely inhuman proportions and still recognize them as human. For the same reason, several forces acting independently to make a universe that appears the way it does will seem, to a human mind, to be ordered like clockwork, when truly it isn't.
November 12, 2011 5:29 AM
:-/
I'm sorry, but you're using a kindergerten-level knowledge of physics and you don't understand what you're saying at all.
Talking about things like inertia and heat? You are really confused on those. I'm sure it sounds good to you on paper, but it's nonsensical, not logical, and not physics. I think you'd really benefit from some study.
Now. The big glaring problem you have here is this:
Who created the creator?
You say, "The world is so amazing, someone had to have created it!" But who made the creator? You run into the same question you have without a creator. All it does is make you 'feel' better because you imagine there's a person behind it.
Long ago, people thought the gods made it rain, made the sun rise in the morning, or made crops grow. They thought spirits lived in the lakes, in the sky, and high atop mountains.
Today, we know that's wrong. As we examine the world around us we see how things work. As we explore the stars we begin to see how we got here. The more we look, the more we find. Behind every curtain of mystery some people still expect to find God. But we find knowledge waiting there instead.
You try to talk about 'heat' and say there must be an absolute. Sorry, there is no hottest thing. Just as there is no greatest real number. If you study math, you will be shocked to find that even if you managed to count to infinity, there is an infinity even beyond that. You're using false logic.
You're desperately trying to mash together snippets of physics you're twisting and don't understand so you can keep blindly following old writings of farmers and scribes, because that's what you were taught.
Open your eyes, your mind. Read and gain knowledge. Follow the truth. The truth doesn't always look the way you thought it would. But it's still the truth.
November 14, 2011 7:19 PM
I don't believe in god... and that proofs don't convince me at all.
November 15, 2011 5:25 PM
haha this is something i really must show to my family XD
November 16, 2011 1:23 PM
i found this toaster outside my house, and i picked it up, my life has been always normal and un eventfull, but then io payred to it to give me a good day, and that day i had the most fun and awesome day ever, then eevery day i kept praying to it and my life got better, theres been bad things in my life but i dont really focus on them and i only focus on the good ones, i think praying to my toaster really makes a differece (im not trying to diss anyones beliefs, its just my life has been the same when i was in the church and now that im outside, if any i feel more free more than ever)
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