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Limitations of the Arguments towards the Existence of God Essays

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The western conception of god is defined as the superme being that is all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresence, perfection, all-loving and most kind. Although monotheism like Christian believe God which is perfect existed and they propose several arguments to prove God’ existence, however there are no evidence to show that god actually exist. Atheists suggested those arguments provide insufficient reason to believe. Furthermore, some arguments propose that it is possible to disprove the existence of God, or of certain characteristics attributed to God. This article will be discuss the limitation of some arguments for the existence of god and propose some arguments against god’ existence.

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Thought this argument, it is not necessary to find the physical evidence of God’s existence as we can prove God’s existence by logic.

However, the successful of this argument is controversial. Critics argue the statement is not persuasive.There are some general objections to ontological arguments. First, existence is not a characteristics of perfection. Rene‘s premise stated that it is more perfect to exist than not to exist. However, it seem that it is more prefect that Hitler or devils not to exist, therefore his second premise has problem. Furthermore, Immanuel Kant proposed that existence is not a predicate because it is not the essence of God. If existence is a not predicate, both God that exists to a God that does not are the same and they can’t greater than each other. Third, ontological argument is begging the question, which is statement is assumed to be true without evidence, since the premise that god is the most perfect being is yet to be proved.

cosmological Arguments

Cosmological argument is an argues of the first cause of the universe. Thomas Aquinas adapted this argument and proposed every contingent must have a cause, therefore the beginning of the universe must had a cause, He stated that the cause is the necessary being, which mean God. Thus, God exist.

However, the argument did n’t not explain the reason of the first cause is

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