Existence+of+God+(Proofs)

Existence of God (Proofs) The Biggest Question that we must sooner or later address is: Does God exist? The question of God’s existence has an objective answer. Objectively the answer is either yes or no. The cosmos is a very different place depending on which of these answers turns out to be true. (Ideology) ||= Meaning must be discovered and accepted ||
 * = === No God === ||= ==God== ||
 * = Existence is without purpose ||= Existence has a purpose ||
 * = Meaning must be made and imposed
 * = Happiness is transient & incomplete ||= Happiness is lasting and complete ||

Our potential for **happiness** depends on God’s existence.It is possible to state proofs that indicate that it is more reasonable to conclude that there is a God than to conclude that there is not a God (0033). A proof is a type of argument whereby a conclusion deemed to be clear and convincing is produced. Thomas Aquinas offered five proofs for the existence of God. [|1] 1. Prime Mover says that n ot every thing moves or changes every other thing in a cause effect relationship. There needs to be a big banger who sets the pattern for change and sets the process in motion (0339). Things work in some ways, but not others. //M&M’s can’t cure an infection, antibiotics can.// We can trace the origin of the universe back to a point called the big bang (0300). God fits into the big cosmic picture in the role of the big banger (0338). 2. First Cause says that n othing can cause itself, so in the beginning there has to be a first cause (0283). Fourteen billion years ago the all that would become the universe was compressed into super hot dense prime matter smaller then an atom. Who created the prime matter? God fits into the big cosmic picture in the role of the prime matter maker. 3. Necessary Being states that reality cannot consist of only contingent beings, there must be at least one being that had to exist. If existence is based only on contingent beings, then the series of beings must regress endlessly. A beginning (big bang) requires a necessary being. God fits into the big picture in the role of the Had-To-Be Being. 4. Perfect Being states that we can identify gradations in being from superior to inferior. Something inferior in being cannot create that which is superior in being to itself. God fits into the big picture in the role of the Perfect Predicator. 5. Grand Designer states that because creation works in concert with itself it most be the product of design. A computer program randomly prints letters or spaces. How long until Hamlet emerges from the chaos (0286)? Would it ever emerge? God fits into the big picture in the role of the Cosmic Designer (0340).

[|1] Aquinas, Thomas //Summa Theologica. //Prime Pars, Question 2, Article 2