Maurice ,
1) We have ideas of many things.
2) These ideas must arise either from ourselves or from things outside us.
3) One of the ideas we have is the idea of God--an infinite , all-perfect being.
4) This could not have been caused by ourselves , because we know ourselves to be limited and
imperfect , and no effect can be greater than its cause.
5) Therefore , the idea must have been caused by something outside us which has nothing less
than the qualities contained in the idea of God.
6) But only God himself has those qualities.
7) Therefore God himself must be the cause of the idea we have of him.
8) Therefore God EXISTS.
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1) Every natural , innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that
desire.
2) But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time , nothing on earth , no creature can
satisfy.
3) Therefore there must exist something more than time , earth and creatures , which can satisfy
this desire.
4) This something is what people call "GOD" and "life with God forever."
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for these desires exists. A baby feels
hunger ; well , there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim ; well , there is such a
thing as water. Men feel sexual desire ; well , there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a
desire which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was
made for another world. ( God , Heaven ) |
