God?

God?

The Question of Existence: Arguments For and Against God
The meaning of life is different for most everybody and the search for the meaning of life usually brings people to one of the most important questions they will ask themselves; does God exist? This is the most important question that one can ask because it will determine how they live their life. According to Peter Kreeft, “The idea of God is either a fact, like sand or a fantasy, like Santa” (Lawhead 322).1 Once a person makes their decision on fact or fantasy it gives them meaning to their life, and it affects how they live their life. Kreeft states, “The idea of God has guided or deluded more lives, changed more history inspired more music and poetry and philosophy than anything else, real or imagined” (Lawhead 322).1 The impact on the idea of God has shaped human history, but does God exist? The main arguments for the existence of God are the cosmological argument, and the teleological argument. Most atheists or nonbelievers base their case on the lack of evidence for God’s existence, but they do have a powerful argument. The main argument against the existence of God is the argument from evil. The arguments for and the arguments against the existence of God persuade people on their decision.
The cosmological argument also known the First Cause argument and the Kalam argument. Argues there are things in the world whose existence was caused, and so there has to be a First Cause to entire series. Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church is known as and the father of Thomism produced a famous version of the cosmological argument. Aquinas’s version of the argument is broken down into 6 parts (Lawhead 330).1 “1. The world contains things whose existence depends upon some cause. 2. Everything that exists is either uncaused or caused to exist by another. 3. There cannot be and infinite regress of causes. 4. So there must be an uncaused first cause. 5. An uncaused first cause is (in...