EXISTENCE OF GOD

Existence of God

Table of Content

Introduction3

Discussion and Analysis3

The Critical Analysis4

The Beliefs5

Qualitative and Quantitative Theistic Categories7

The Ontological Concept8

Ontological Argument Anselm of Canterbury9

Scientific Proof of the Existence of God9

Can God and real evil be reconciled?10

Theories on the Existence of God10

General Perception and Concept11

A Turing Test for Religion12

Attributes of God13

Omnipresence13

Omnipotence13

Omniscience14

Conclusion14

Existence of God

Introduction

The existence of God has been the subject of arguments for and against proposed by philosophers, theologians and other thinkers. In philosophical terms, the arguments about the existence of God refer to schools of thought on the epistemology of the ontology of God.

The reflection on God's existence raises questions philosophic fundamental, and involves a discussion between different positions, whose expression is limited usually not the world of rationality, but extends to the beliefs. The theism and atheism are the theoretical positions in favor or against the existence of God, respectively, while agnosticism is denying the possibility of knowing the existence of God. Many names have been proposed qualifying or more accurately define every possible position in this debate (pantheism,deism, apateísmo, etc.).

A basic problem is that there is no universally accepted definition of God. Some definitions of the existence of God are not specific enough to allow it to be true to say that there is something that fits the definition.

Discussion and Analysis

The question of the existence of God is presented as a problem in both directions and at different times. First, in the sense of provability, which involves or implies two things: that the existence of God is not an obvious fact, just observable (in this case would be demonstrable, not detectable), and which are not self-evident, can come to their knowledge by way of demonstration or scientific knowledge. Second, assuming the possibility of ascertaining its existence is the problem of the demonstration or realization of that possibility.

Efficient causes at work in nature, although they act or cause in a real or effective, depend, however, another reason to be and to act. Thus, for example, the growth of crops depends (in part) of the rain falling on the fields; these, the cloud formation; these, condensation of the steam which comes from the evaporation of the sea, etc.

This reveals that all the causes which act in the world are in the nature of second causes, i.e., caused causes, and all things that work are contingent (or are not in themselves the cause of their being).

The Critical Analysis

The arguments for the existence of God typically include matters metaphysical, empirical and subjective. The allegations against typically include empirical questions and reasoning deductive or inductive.

Although long, much of the western academic world viewed the question of the existence of God as an untouchable issue or a pseudo, this issue has once again sparked lively debates in philosophy. It has come to write: "In the academic world, God is not dead [a reference to the death of God described by Nietzsche] came to life in the late sixties.”

God's existence was to some extent obvious for medieval theologians. They simply knew he ...