Religious Experience, Argument for the Existence of God Arguments from Religious Experience show remarkable diversity, ( a ) in the sorts of experience taken as data for the argument, ( b ) in the structure of the inference itself, and ( c ) in the...

Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God The cosmological argument is actually a family of arguments that seek to demonstrate the existence of a sufficient reason or first cause of the existence of the cosmos. Among the proponents of the...

Popular Arguments for the Existence of God Argument about the existence of God is rare, for religious beliefs are effectively supported in our society by means that are not principally rational. It is common to answer the question "Why are you a...

Hiddenness of God Many people are perplexed that God (if such there be) does not make His existence more evident. For many of them, the hiddenness of God puts their faith to the test. Others, however, claim that God's hiddenness is the basis of...

Moral Arguments for the Existence of God From the time of Immanuel Kant to the present day, a great many attempts have been made to base arguments for God's existence not upon the mere fact that there is a world, nor on the general orderliness...

Degrees of Perfection, Argument for the Existence of God The proof for the existence of God from degrees of perfection, sometimes called the Henological Argument, finds its best-known expression as the fourth of Thomas Aquinas's "Five...

PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Early generations of Christian thinkers accepted God's existence as a given that needed no proof and was surmised on the basis of immediate evidence in an act that did not clearly distinguish faith from reason....

Moral Arguments for the Existence of God [addendum] The moral argument purports to show that evidence from our moral experience supports the existence of God. From the 1970s onward, various forms of the moral argument have been developed by many...

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