❤*†PHILOSOPHICAL DIGEST @ ZION†* ❤

  †A CRITICAL QUEST TO PROVE GOD'S EXISTENCE {3}†

REV. PROF. CYPRIAN CHRIS JERUSALEM OKOLIE, PhD, DD.

(The Presiding Chancellor / Rector & Bishop-Chaplain)

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Welcome To The Latest Sacred Tutorial Offer @ ZION In Our Theological Romance Course: "PHILOSOPHICAL DIGEST @ ZION", With Exciting, Interesting, Thrilling & Profoundly Philosophical Discourse On: A Critical Quest To Prove God's Existence {3}.

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A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO PROVE THERE IS GOD IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE: Ever since the development of Philosophy, the recognition of the mystery of the existence of God had hung heavy in the minds of Philosophers. Nevertheless, among the Christian Theologians it has had a better fate - Faith & Divine Revelation, in their view, are the solutions to the problem.

The genuine Philosophers were born with pronounced propensity for inquiry as to the why of things & acquired great skills in the shifting of axioms along tracks of REASON. They are prone to reject premises, which in their senses they cannot apprehend & scorn axioms derived therefrom as being not self-evident.

But because REASON is heavily dependent on premises & a beautiful, honest conclusion can be thoroughly falsified by erroneous premises (basic assumption) or lack of true premises, Philosophers often failed woefully when they speculate on spiritual things.

To this effect, therefore, many Philosophers have been wondering about the reality & nature of God. Does He really exist? If He does, what is His nature & what can we say about Him? Since we cannot deduce God's reality by inference such as the inference whereby we reach scientific & everyday conclusion, some Philosophers & Empiricists alike, eventually tend to wink @ any idea of God.

Nevertheless, the question "why is there anything @ all?" continues to form a thunderclap of conscience in an age when all men, women & children of humankind felt anxious of how they came into being. The pressure of the question is felt when we consider the impossibility of things just happening to be. Ah, how possible could that be?

The most thoughtful sets of people - the Philosophers & Scientists - tend to give a rational reply to the question but have not yet succeeded in giving an up-to-date solution to the problem.

According to St. Anselm, we define "God" as 'The Greatest Object Of Thought'. Now, if an object of thought does not exist, another exactly like it, which does exist, is greater. Therefore, The Greatest Of All Objects Of Thought MUST EXIST, since otherwise, still greater, would be possible. Therefore, GOD EXISTS! Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

In another philosophical work, Bradley's Principle suggests the PROBABILITY, POSSIBILITY & REALITY of God's Existence, hence, the "What May Be & Must Be, Is". Therefore, GOD EXISTS! Alleluia!! Amen.

Further, there is a COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT OF GOD'S EXISTENCE in the form of the FIRST-CAUSE ARGUMENT, derived from Aristotle's Argument of "THE UNMOVED MOVER". It states that everything finite has a " CAUSE", which in turn had a "CAUSE"; & so on. This series of previous "CAUSES" cannot, it is maintained, be Infnite, & the first term in the series must Itself be uncaused since otherwise it would not be in the first term. There is, therefore, an "UNCAUSED CAUSE" Of Everything - "We Do Not Know What It Is, but WE CALL IT GOD"! Therefore, GOD EXISTS! Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

Moreover, in Leibniz Philosophy, we observe a different view towards God's existence captioned "SUFFICIENT REASON". Leibniz argued that every particular thing in the world is "CONTINGENT", which means that it would be logically possible for it to exist, & this also, is applicable to the whole universe. Even if we suppose the universe to have always existed, there is nothing within the universe to show why it exists. Nevertheless, everything has to have a Sufficient Reason, which must be outside the universe. This "SUFFICIENT REASON" IS GOD! Therefore, GOD EXISTS! Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

Professor Lewis clearly stressed that no explanation or solution in the normal sense can convince us of God's existence. Moreover, young children & the philosophers alike realize that there must be an "UNDERLYING GROUND" for the existence of the world; & it must be a kind that no further ground or cause is possible or necessary for it - And THIS IS GOD! Therefore, GOD EXISTS! Alleluia!! Amen.

Of course, we could possibly escape any dilemma pertaining to God's existence by insisting that God is an "Ultimate Mystery" rather than a total mystery, since we do not use human language literally when we speak of the Ultimate. God is "The Ultimate Source Of All Things"; He is "The Ground Of Our Being".

Therefore, God Must Necessarily Be A Personality - Doubtless, "Personality" need not invove finitude.

Certainly, our intuitive knowledge of God's existence must be true, after all, NOTHING CAN ACTUALLY EXIST BY CHANCE. Yes! GOD EXISTS & WE KNOW IT! (Q.E.D.).

Blessed Believing Brethren {BBB} @ ZION & Favoured Associates Of God's Kingdom: If we actually take the foregoing as a logical "PHILOSOPHICAL PROOF" of God's existence, then, we shall, in the subsequent philosophical talk on the sacred theme, go in the more divinely convincing, absolutely interesting, essentially thrilling, philosophically exciting, radically all-absorbing, totally overwhelming cum spiritually edifying & nourishing "THEOLOGICAL DIMENSION" of the same essential sacred business, to God's Glory, by His Grace, if CHRIST De MESSIAH tarries in His RAPTURE of The Kingdom Saints @ ZION of Holy Jerusalem: Our Paradisal Home! Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

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