The existence of God.
The question that millions of people ask themselves each day is does God exist?
What is God? Who is God? Throughout my life I have never questioned the existence of God; God just IS. However, there exists beings who need an explanation to how God can possibly exist as an eternal, all-powerful and all-knowing being. Through three different arguments, this paper examines some rational arguments for the existence of and eternal being, God.
The first argument states that if something exist, then it has existed from eternity. Something cannot come from nothing, therefore something has to exist. If God exist He is an eternal being. God is something, therefore God must exist. God has to be an eternal being because he is the greatest conceivable being. Therefore, the premise must be that as an eternal being God exists, and his existence is accounted for. His existence does not depend on either a cause nor on mere chance. Then, if God exists, He is his own existence; meaning He cannot come into existence and he cannot cease to exist. Therefore, If God does exist, He cannot cause or destroy his own existence, which makes it necessary for God to exist. Now, either God exists or it is impossible that God exists. God is something; something does in fact exist. It certainly is not impossible that god exists. Therefore, it is necessary for God to exist. Therefore, God exists.
The second argument says if some being exists, it can be dependent or independent on another being. Dependent beings exist; therefore, independent being must also exist. if all being were dependent then beings would be infinite and the answer to how beings started would still be unanswered. We ha ...